"Sgt. Marvin E. McManus of Montgomery City, Missouri, ball turret gunner on the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Hard To Get" is passed out of the waist window of his plane to the waiting ambulance at an air base in England, after returning from an 8th Air Force attack on the ship building yards and naval arsenal at Kiel, Germany." Sgt. McManus was wounded when a German fighter sent 20 mm cannon shell into his turret. He kept shooting until he saw the fighter go down in flames, then climbed out of his turret, made his way to the radio room and collapsed.