waistgunner

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Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • ad hoc paper said:
    "Hitler would like this man to go home" "A good American non-com" " man who knows his business and works hard at it" What a crap.

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed on a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

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  • Szmytke said:
    This is the blister gun position on a Consolidated PBY Catalina, identified by its unique shape and in the rear of the image the parasol wing arrangement of the aircraft.
  • perfgeek said:
    Agreed.
  • AlexinMontreal said:
    This is the portside (left) blister, looking towards the front of the plane.
  • Scott Kraft said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Goggles, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Col_Flashman said:
    PBY-5A (patrol bomber consolidated aircraft co.), October 1941 - January 1945, Hydraulically-actuated, retractable tricycle landing gear for amphibious operation. Introduced tail gun position, replaced bow single gun position with bow "eyeball" turret equipped with twin .30 machine guns (some later units), improved armor, self-sealing fuel tanks. Prior to the PBY-5, PBY 1, 2, 3 & 4's were true Seaplane's, designed & equipped only for water landing's & takeoff's. The name of Catalina I, IA, IB, II, IIA, IIIA, IVA, IVB & VI, was used only by the British Commonwealth, though later adopted by everyone else after the war. USN & USCG Aviation Crews called the PBY's either "Cats" (day) or "Black Cats" (night) for Combat Missions or "Dumbo" for Air-Sea Rescue Missions. USAAC's designation for the PBY was, OA-10, OA-10A, & OA-10B & GST by the Soviets.

Stan V. Ballard Special Collection Photo On the reverse, there is a written note, spellings errors included: ""The Burial Ground of Miller. Many thousand boys are there, probably to be soon forgotten by everyone except their famalies.""

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