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 ...
Curled in a four-foot-wide glass sphere beneath the bomber, the ball turret gunner faced attacks from below — the preferred angle of German fighters and anti-aircraft fire. If the turret jammed, he ...
More than 80 years after he flew over occupied France in World War II, a 100-year-old American veteran received the highest ...
Phillip “Bruce” Cook flew 35 missions as a ball turret gunner in a B-17 Flying Fortress, tasked with fighting for air ...
Most crew members considered the ball turret the worst position on the aircraft. It was not for the faint of heart. Gunners spent hours curled into a metal sphere suspended under the bomber. The ...
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, ...
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