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Interview (inside a B-17) with a WWII B-24 ball-turret gunner

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Uploaded by on Aug 21, 2010

Quick impromptu interview (inside a B-17 Flying Fortress at the Evergreen Air & Space Museum) with Al -- who served as a ball-turret gunner on the belly of a B-24 during World War II. Conducted Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010.

Al talks briefly about being a ball-turret gunner, the nature of air combat, and the durability of a B-17 as it compares to the B-24 in which he flew.

Blog post about WWII ball-turret gunners: http://untoldvalor.blogspot.com/2007/08/ball-turret-gunners-breed-apart.html

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