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Eighth Air Force General Statistical Information

USAAF Combat Casualties suffered in the ETO during WW II (PDF) This is a single sheet summary of the basic losses of personnel of all units in the European area. Also has a global summary. This was producded by the Government Printing Office in 1953.

8th AF Bases (England) (PDF)

Enlisted Personnel Summary of Speciality / Branch of Service (PDF)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

-- Randall Jarrell