War- battles, peace, death, explosions, pain, flames, gunfire, bombs, planes, tanks, soldiers, enemy, very loud, terror, destruction, bullets
Gunner- gun, bullets, shells, loud firing, bullet holes, dead people, blood
Attack- assault, defend, protect, kill, charge, forward, victorious, gunfire, advance, yells
World War II- Holocaust, Hitler, Nazis, Pearl Harbor, atom bomb, Truman, death, Stalin
The research I found about ball turrets does help me visualize the poem better and helps me to understand a little of what the doomed ball turret gunner was going through than before I researched what a ball turret was.
The author's message is difficult to detect even with the research, however it probably is along the lines of War is a very hellish time, and is full of very dark events. This is probably due to his inability to get in a plane because he failed to qualify and was instead forced to work as a a radio tower operator.
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