B-17 Flying Fortess Airplane Skin / 'Death of the Ball Turret Gunner'
This is an original piece of a B-17 fuselage with Randal Jarrell's poem, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (below).
This one is dark, but this poem made a huge impact on me during high school. With its vivid imagery, it highlights the Dehumanization of War and is very profound. What a story!
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.
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