No Messerschmitts or Focke-Wulfs in sight

This is what the top turret gunner would see, a .50-caliber machine gun on each side. Flight engineer and top turret gunner Frank Girman said during his 35 missions he fired at two German fighters. "I didn't hit them -- well, they kept flying, so I guess I didn't," he said. "The guns jumped around, but that was a good thing, it was like a big shotgun."