The mystery deepens. New evidence reveals the iconic damage to the B-17's ball turret was not from a fighter's bullet, but from flak shrapnel during the bomb run over Magdeburg. This video uses pilot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At some point in their schooling, students used to encounter “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” a brief, bleak, harrowing poem from 1945 by Randall Jarrell. Its last line is especially memorable: ...

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

The war in Gaza is now 1 year old. It has expanded into Lebanon and Iran, and God knows where else it will spread. At least 42,000 people have died, the vast majority civilians. Ceasefire talks have ...