[FastCoyote]

I have a book on my Dad’s bomb group. He only talked a little about it, said it was the end of the war and all. But going over the crew list I found one out of six from the group were either made war prisoners or died. There’s a picture of one plane that made it back with it’s nose turret all shot up. Those were relatively small and cold planes flying with young kids stuck in lonely ball turrets. All heroes indeed.

[70th Division]

the true hero's never talk about the war. They picked the little guys for ball turret. Dad told me a story that they told the turret gunner during training that the turret was on a big screw and not to go around more than 7 times or he would fall out of the plane. So during gunnery practice he would go around 6 times and wind it back up The planes were unpreasureized and very cold and loud. They all used to chatter to make sure someone had not passed out at that altitude. Heros them all.