Ball Turret Gunner Essay

(There are 3 messages to “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” The Reason for the ball turret, young people are the victims, no neutral thought.) The ball turret gunner is one of the most important gunner, that was on a bomber. The bomber was a big jumbo like plane. That was able to carry stuff and drop bombs on its targets. The biggest problem with these type of planes are that they are too big and too slow. Which made it easier for the enemy fighter jets to take them down. The germans came straight up at the plane to shoot it down. To fix this they put a ball turret gunner underneath. “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell which had the most unsettling feeling 5-line poem specially for the ball turret gunner. It proves to be the most horrific out of all the poems we’ve read. Randell’s “The Death of the Ball Turret …show more content…
When german forces tried to put an end to the bombers. By flying up underneath the plane and firing hoping it’ll explode. The allies had to fix this problem so the ball turret gunner was added on the bottom to protect the plane if the plane was alone without the help of the fighters. The plane can hold a ton of fuel and bombs. “Critical discussion of ‘Strategic Bombing’, or its variant of ‘area bombing’, took place even during the War.”(EV) Shows How important the bomber was to the war. Jarrell put in his poem about a young kid after his mother's death joining the military. The Hardship of what this kid had to go through being young than worst happens. This one kid had a shortened life than what he thought he would get. “ From my Mother’s sleep I fell Into the state…. When I died they washed my out of the turret with a hose.” ( Jarrell’s poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”) The two lines are to show how long and how sad this poem is that after his death there was nothing left. This is how why that this poem affects the young