The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 17, 1943, Page 3

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1943. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ! MARINES LOSE 70 FIGHTING MEN IN ARTILLERY, 12104 FLYING FISHBOWL Eadie oma cemented | turret gunners. . . By GLADWIN HILL | “It’s the tougnest job on the} | AP Features ship, in some ways. The ball- -tur-| FOR SECOND PLACE IN | AT A U.S. BOMBER STA- ret ae pace mee niet ae TION SOMEWHERE IN ENG-|it. He's a lonely son of a gun. ~ 4 gcokl cath: April 17—This is a piece| | Job Has Unique Lore = | | In the Fortresses’ relativel: | about ball-turret _gunners—those | short history of American opera In a game that started off like| bland midgets who whirl around} tion in the European theatre, the a whiz but changed into a rout, on a thrée-foot fishbow! under the | ball- |-turret job already has begun the 50th Coast Artillery of Fort) belly of a Flying Fortress, bang-/ to acquire its own unique charac-} Taylor moved into a tie for -|,ing away at the enemy with a gun' ter and lore. ond place of the American div -| in each hand. It is written by re-! It is not notably more danger-! ion of the Island Service Men’s| quest—a kind of indirect tribute! ous than the four principal gun LeagueJast night..on the NOB}|from the Fortress men who are! jobs—the two waist-gunners, the diamond! by vanquishing the Ma-| not ball-turret gunners. top turret man, and the tail gun- rines, 12-4. We were sitting around the of-| Seah plese not an exe pocnally ficers’ club stove—a_ co-pilot, a} | high casualty rate among ball- through the Stee ae ort tne jeouple of navigators and some’ turret gunners. But the job has soldiers were leading by a 6-4| score. In the final half of the sixth,| . however, the Army staged a mer-| ciless offense that netted six more Classified Column SOLDIERS MOVE INTO TIE runs for the final total. The clash opened with the Ma-} rines getting one in the first. Fort) @@eeeeccccccccccoccccocccceccceenaasccacceccoccees Taylor took a 2-1 edge in the sec- FOR SALE WANTED ond and widened the margin with| another in the third and one in [TECHNICAL BOOKS — New|WANTED—Room in private See the fourth. Shipment weekly. A look at} ily by two men. Apply Box | ground officers — talking about! many unique features. Its par: j flying the Fortresses, and finally ticular hazards are mainly men-} lying, on the end of his spine, in}even room in the globe for his) guns, except when it noses up, has to hunch, half-sitting, half tal. & position that has been most} Being held under a plane only’ aptly compared to that of an em- | the gunner has to wor 77) Then it was the Marines’ turn in the fifth and they turned on the| pressure for three scores to knot} the count at 4-4. That proved their | last stand for the soldiers garner- | ed two in the fifth fora 6-4 lead| befbie the final deluge? Is The winners’ attack was led by jerfielder, who! and four-teips.io-the plate. A le by Belli, second baseman, andja triple by Poandle, shortstop, obtained a triplesi ai single, double alsd contributed to the attack. our Technical Shelf may save} 572. you dines of postage and! weeks of waiting. PAUL/ SMITH, bookseller, 334 Simon-' ton St at Eaton St. aprl6-2tx PERSONAL | WANTED—Gentleman between 45 to 55 years as a companion! with serious intention only. L. M. P.O. Box 242, Key West. apr17-2tx in effect. The Artman Press.| HELP WANTED apr1-tf! ? | WANTED—Five Waitresses, one Counter Man, one Short Order} aprl- -tf! SPECIAL—One thousand Manila Second Sheets, $1.00. 500 Sheets, 60c. These prices now BICYCLES—Motor Scooter, Flash- by a blob of transparent plas not exactly reassuring in it “I remember when I was doing ball-turret training back home,” ic is one of the navigators said. “I was! scared stiff of falling, right there! jon the field—three feet above the} | ground.” The ball-turret is no spot for a largish guy with any toward claustrophob’ tendencies because for hours in a space too small for him even to sit up properly. If they: made the turret any bi fer too much wind resistance . He| power broyo in a womb. Oddly enough, | ball-turret gunners seldom get! cramps or totter out of their} posts at the end of a flight like kinked-up rumble-seat victims. No Room To Roam It’s infeasible for the ball-turret man to climb up inside the plane and circulate around as do other members of the crew; once he gets in there, he usually ys. What room he doesn’t occupy } himself is taken up by breeches of his two guns, to which e attached the controls of the mechanism by which he the/ | whirls the turret around. He hasn’ ‘t|of fire of the Fortresse's other parachute. He has to leave that up| exposing its belly. Then he is an inside the Fortress, in the optimis-| excellent target, and has te shoot tic hope that if the plane starts| or be shot. falling, he'll have a chance to} The turret is uocated right un- \climb up and get it. der some of the hydraulic me- Where the other gunners are} chanism, and there are inevitable | protected by armor plate on sev-|oil leaks down into the turret | eral sides, the ball-turret man has; Sometimes ball-turret men have jit in only one place, above him,! landed to find their jackets fro: where there is not much danger stiff in places from chilled oil | anyway. Otherwise he is right! Then there's the door. Besides | out in the open, protected only by; the aperture into the cabin of the {a thin layer of transparent plas-| plane; the ball-turret has a panel | tic, which is supposedly shatter-| about 18 inches across, offering proof, but no protection if a big; theoretical egress into the wide enough bullet comes his way. Ac-! open air. tually he is fairly well protected| Ona raid a few days ago a ball- from enemy shooting by the area | turret man felt his back getting + {OCCA RRL OSU A ETERS ES ESS STO TEOTO LOOT TOTOS ESET 2 and Serviced by— Jeweler 518 Fleming Street Ww In Every Town... Maurice Scammons, WHENEVER YOU WANT ANYTHING HING OR R ANYTHING DONE—WE'LL HELP YOU! OO OT TEI TIT OE WATCH REPAIRS ALL MAKES Expertly and Inexpensively Repaired VV VV VV VV TI FRG ESIAICS yrevvvveves ARAB eee ttn 5 637. Soft Water Used Exclusively CAROLYN BEAUTY SALON The is the BEST PRESCRIPTION STORE Your Family Deserves THE BEST and WE SERVE THE BEST! 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