This picture was taken by Gil's Waist Gunner flying high Squadron over Germany on the way to target; Summer, 1944."The sound was deep and all-encompassing, with no notes in it - just a gigantic, faraway suge of doom. It was the heavies...
I've never known a storm or a machine, or any resolve of Man, that had about it the aura of such gastly relentlessness...
The Germans began to shoot heavy high...ack...ack. Great puffs of it, by the score, speckled the sky until it was hard to distinguish the smoke puffs from the planes.
The formation never falters or varies but moves on as if nothing has happened...they stalk on slowly with the dreadful pall of sound, as though they were seeing only something at a great distance, and nothing exists in between."
By Ernie Pyle, Stars and Stripes, July 25, 1944
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