His vision wasn't up to par to become a pilot, so the Air Force made him a waist gunner instead. But don't waist gunners also need great vision? Lick laughed. "I have never understood that ...

Staff Sgt. James Boring served in World War II. He was born and raised in southeast Kansas but moved to Wichita and attended East High School before being drafted: <a ...

Six of them survived. John Elliot's mother, Jenevieve Tarbert, never found out about the circumstances of the death of her husband — waist gunner John Allen Tarbert. SCHENECTADY — The remains ...