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 ...

In January 1943, during a brutal daylight bombing raid over the heavily defended German U-boat base at St. Nazaire, B-17 ball ...

Flying a B-17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft defences, who always marked them as primary targets. Out of the entire ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Congressman Greg Murphy joined a celebration of life and recognition for a World War II Army Airman Wednesday. Staff Sergeant Robert Ferris Jr. was a ball turret gunner on ...

Ball turret gunner in Liberator bomber shot down over Germany at 19 turns 100 Leonard Dowling, a turret gunner on a B24 bomber shot down over Germany in 1944, and liberated in a 700-mile march, ...

Given the B-24's low ground clearance, the turret was retracted into the body of the plane during takeoff and landing. "There were a lot of people who could not fly that position," said Bertolino, ...

In the poem, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," author Randall Jarrell wrote. ... "From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from ...

I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. -- Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" POOLER, GA.-- I am standing before ...