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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Ball Turret Gunners - Who's the Tail Gunner?

If you're five foot eight, you're probably too big to be a ball Turk owner. People tended to be smaller than so you do have a pool of people who were going to be in your crosshairs. It's markedly similar to another, what I think, undesirable job of generation later, a tunnel rat in Vietnam. If you're the small guy standing near the lieutenant, guess what? The ball turret gunner is going to lend in the same kind of direction.

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