And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Balls of steel or more likely young, dumb, and full of some… no thought of mortality ever entering his mind.
ReplyDeleteSilly question. Isn't the tailgunner's field of fire restricted by seating him so deep in the fuselage and close to the tail?
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Here is a good article. Scroll down for a photo of rear gunner with "turtleback" retracted--
Deletehttps://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/curtiss-sb2c-helldiver-big-tailed-beast
SB2C--aka S.O.B. 2nd class.