Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most impressive of the Cheyenne's talents, however, is its deadly arsenal. Moving in for the kill, the two-man crew-pilot and copilot-gunner-have at their fingertips six missile launchers, a swiveling belly-turret with a 30-mm. automatic gun, and a nose turret armed with either a 40-mm. grenade-launcher or a six-barrel minigun that fires 6,000 rounds per minute. A special helmet linked to an infra-red light beam allows the pilot to aim his fire system by moving his head, while the gunner, using a periscopic sight, can presumably...
...America's great war poet, because he was writing about a different set of realities with the same kind of immediacy. He wrote then too on conventional themes, but extraordinarily well--the loneliness of the individual soldier, the bursts of sudden violence. His much anthologized "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," ends, "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose...
...could be said of him that he knew all about death before he died. Out of this knowledge came the most quoted poem of World War II, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner...
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose...
...rifle bullet creased Naty's scalp. Moments later, his radio went dead again; blood from his wound had short-circuited his chest microphone. Naty led the final phase of the attack standing high in his turret and directing his tanks with hand signals. By the time he reached the center of Kallah, only three Shermans were still operating...