at home. A copy of a magazine ad featured the ball gunner under the headline "Giving 'Em Hell in a Goldfish Bowl." Adams contrasts this with the poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell, which depicts the gruesome death of a ball gunner who was literally blown to bits by a shrapnel explosion. List of chapters Mythmaking and the War No Easy Answers The Patterns of War, 1939-1945 The American War Machine Overseas Home Front Change A New World Notes References The Best War Ever: America and World War II, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, See also World War II American History 1993 non-fiction books History books about World War II Non-fiction books about military history of the United States