This crack areial machine gunner is a part of an unbeatable combination. He has a fast, accurate gun--and the world's best in the way of plane and pilot.

This crack aerial machine gunner is part of an unbeatable combination. He has a fast, accurate gun--and the world's best in the way of plane and pilot.

United States Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, La. fires machine gun on enemy during aerial fight with German planes somewhere in the European theatre.

Side machine gunner of a YB-17 bomber

Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it

Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it

98TH BOMB WING, JAPAN--Pfc. Benjamin Livingston flys as a gunner on one of the U.S. Air Force veteran 98th Bomb Wing's Superforts, defending the B-29 against Communist jet fighters.

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed on a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

He's like to use that gun on the Axis. After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas