Mr. Moffitt, who served as a flight engineer and fired the top turret guns on a B-17 bomber, died Saturday at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Alzheimer's disease. He was 88. A native of ...

Bill Schock officially became a B-17 co-pilot with the 384th Bomber ... missing — the Germans reported Staff Sgt. Luke Shannon, top turret gunner, was dead. Schock underwent several ...

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Photographers were shooting out of the open top. Unlike modern commercial planes, the B-17 was not pressurized so no one flew out the roof. Monday's flight was smooth and the landing so soft ...

The B-17 flew more than 290,000 sorties in the ... 50 caliber machine guns in a top or dorsal turret. It was the turret gunner’s job to scan the horizon for any incoming enemy fighters.

The B-17 is more than just an airplane ... Boeing quickly adopted the fitting name for what has become a legend. The nose turret was mounted on top of the glass nose, and the waist guns were ...

High among the puffy white clouds over Kiel both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-17 Worry Wart were knocked ... straight on toward the target. “In my top turret I knew it was a bad hit when ...

was assigned to one of the B-17's seven machine gun emplacements. These included 13 M2 Browning .50 caliber twin tail guns, a waist gun, twin guns in the ball turret, a top turret, a chin turret ...

Players can take control of various roles in B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th Redux, including Pilot, Co-Pilot, Navigator, Bombadier/Chin Turret Gunner, Radio Operator, Engineer/Top Turret Gunner, ...

“Top turret to pilot: negative ... where Buck Cleven’s B-17 took a direct hit in Masters of The Air Episode 4 ( “Damn Bremen”). And in the sky above Münster, Major Robert ...