A World War II veteran shares firsthand memories of serving as a B-17 ball turret gunner, including intense combat and a ...

The ball turret, like this one on a B-17 in England in 1943, was designed small to reduce drag, so its gunner usually was the shortest man in the crew. Gunners on World War II bombers had only a ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – In 1942, Congress voted to lower the age of those who could be drafted to 18. Richard Gibbs was one of the first 18-year-olds to go to WWII. He said once he got his orders, the ...

Wallace Goldfarb, 102, sits recently at his home in Farmington holding a photo of himself taken in Molesworth, England, when he was a ball turret gunner in the 303rd Bomb Group, 358th Bombing Squadron ...

Analyze the dramatic moment when a German shell struck a B-17’s ball turret directly, and how the gunner inside miraculously survived what should have been a fatal hit. Wild video shows chaos in LA ...

Clair Smith of Huntington served in the Army Air Corps during World War II as a ball turret gunner. Here are some experiences he shared about his time in the war. HUNTINGTON-- Shortly after Pearl ...

Jerry Duran, who served as a ball turret gunner during World War II, was recognized at a meeting of the Veterans Coffee Club on Thursday, Feb. 18, at the B-17 Alliance Restoration & Museum in Salem.

Lawrence A. “Larry” Hilte Sr., a World War II ball turret gunner who flew combat missions in Europe aboard a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, died Saturday of prostate cancer at Gilchrist ...