Randall Jarrell "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" Poem animation WW2

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Heres a virtual movie of Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965) American poet, novelist, critic, children's author and essayist. reading one of his best known poems "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner is a five-line poem by Randall Jarrell published in 1945. It is about a gunner in a Sperry ball turret on a World War II American bomber aircraft, who was killed and whose remains were unceremoniously hosed out of the turret. Jarrell, who served in the Army Air ...