Position Firing | B-17 Gunner Training Film (1944)

First Motion Picture Unit of the Air Force would be the sweetest gig in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hubley#Enlistment_and_Beginning_of_UPA:_1942%E2%80%931948

You would think that this would be easy, but it's way way harder than you could imagine. Just pointing a spot light on a ballerina is an actual real job.

It's possible that my grandfather was involved in making this, but I think he was teaching navigators not gunners. He was in Louisiana so he hired a black maid and insisted on paying her white wages. She literally stole his silverware. I guess a lot of stuff really is genetic.

Very cool, but I wonder what percentage of side gunners fell asleep while watching this? They were generally the guys who were too dumb for any other job.

Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.

-- Schopenhauer

Snapshots:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)