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Deep in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, a small but determined team is quietly undertaking one of the most ...
TODAY at 11am, people gathered at the feet of a statue of a supersize Canadian airman will fall silent to remember his Victoria ...
Amid this inferno, 20-year-old Utah native Donald William Pullan – assigned to the 911th Air Engineering Squadron – arrived four days after D-Day, jumping into waist-deep water, his boots sinking into ...
At Dubois man says he was “amazed” to learn that, after all these years, the remains of his uncle from Williamsport, who died in a plane crash while on a World War II mission, had been retrieved from ...
Beckman went on to serve as a navigator within the 305th Bomb Group while Cook was a waist/ball gunner and toggler for the 379th. Beckman attributed his desire to be an aviator to his first flying ...
It wasn't until Joe Kollmyer was in his 20s that the Texan realized his mother was the widow of a World War II bomber crewman.
The remains of a Williamsport Army Air Forces staff sergeant killed in World War II when the B-24J “Liberator” bomber on which he was the left waist gunner crashed into the Baltic Sea have ...
Danneker was assigned to be the left waist gunner onboard a B-24J “Liberator” bomber. On June 20, 1944, Danneker went missing in action when his plane crashed into the Baltic Sea off the coast ...
While the ball turret is typically operated by the shortest man of the crew, Duran initially was assigned to be a waist gunner. But when his buddy groused after the first mission that he was going ...
Roy, a native of Chattanooga, was a waist gunner assigned to the 732nd Bombardment Squadron, 453rd Bombardment Group, 2nd Combat Bomb Wing, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force in the European Theater.
There were Ten men on this plane, and Tech Sergeant Roy was the left waist gunner. Other bombers in the group saw Little Joe take heavy fire from the German fighter planes and roll onto its back ...
There were ten men on this plane, and Tech Sergeant Roy was the left waist gunner. Other bombers in the group saw Little Joe take heavy fire from the German fighter planes and roll onto its back ...