Harrell Roberson saw no future staying on the family farm in El Dorado, Arkansas. But he did see a call to duty in World War II, and took on what was considered one of the most dangerous jobs on the ...

"In WWII, the mighty B-17 bomber was a crucial weapon in crushing the Axis war machine. Slung beneath the belly of each B-17 bomber, hidden from marauding Nazi fighters was the ball turret a glass ...

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 ...

HUNTINGTON- At any moment, 19-year-old Richard Parker could have been shredded out of the sky, doomed to join the fires of Europe raging five miles below. Far below, the carnage of World War II stared ...

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 ...

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, ...

Austin resident Clint Henderson has held a lot of different jobs over his 93 years: a laundry clerk, a shipping director for a printing company, a funeral director and embalmer. But without a doubt, ...

The turrets were for American bombers, especially the "heavies" — the four-engine B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators. The turrets were designed for bomber crews to protect themselves against ...

She isn’t as pretty or as famous as the B-17, but the B-24 carried more bombs to greater distances and at higher speeds, while excelling at jobs the designers never could have imagined. The year was ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed by the United States and one of the most legendary planes of World War II. The bomber entered service in the 1930s and continued ...