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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Randall Jarrell

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" is a five-line poem by Randall Jarrell published in 1945. It is about the death of a gunner in a Sperry ball turret on a World War II American bomber aircraft.

“From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”

Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

&quot;The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner&quot; http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/707.html, complete poem <br class="br">Little Friend, Little Friend (1945)

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