his gunner is a guy named rocky glidewell.ocky had more experience flying from the rear seat than most of his pilots, including his skipper. he had flown with the air group previously. by the time he got to guadalcanal, rocky had 1000 flight hours in the rear seat. he had been a boxer early in his career. that is where he picked up the nickname rocky. , which yourappy guy needed to be to live in this environment. the jungle, the heat, the rain, the lack of food. they were forced to sleep in what they could scrounge up for weeks on end. river,ur clothes in the take a bath once a week if lucky, eating army rations or japanese rice, sometimes filled with worms or maggots. the airfield is continually forcesed by the japanese under the cover of night. raids fromequent japanese planes. sometimes just an individual plane that comes in with the thumping of the engine. here comes washing machine charlie. he developed a system of air raid alarms to know when he is coming. that is what they looked like down there. rough conditions. the g