Popular Culture
- A ball turret features in the poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", by Randall Jarrell.
- The father of T.S. Garp, the main protagonist in John Irving's fourth novel The World According to Garp (1978), is a severely injured ball turret gunner.
- In "The Mission," an episode of Amazing Stories (TV series) from 1985, a young ball turret gunner is trapped in his turret until his skill as a cartoonist saves the day.
- Video games such as Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, Secret Weapons Over Normandy, and Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII) have the player manning a ball turret, typically in brief sequences to provide gameplay variety.
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