If you pause on the shot at 2:55, when the bullets hit the turret, you can see the crewman is dead (that black piece flying out is in fact his body; side of the turret was blown, and he was sucked out, probably dead already from the killer's strafe).
War's a terrible thing. I think the worst footage I've ever seen of a bomber killer was when a man jumped out of a B-17 --ON FIRE-- without a parachute. He was the only one that made it out seconds before it blew to pieces, killing everyone inside.
Marseille's body was also a sad sight to behold. Poor wretch slain due to his crash into the tail of his BF-109, plunging hundreds of feet to his death on the sands below.
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