DOVER, Del.- The Air Mobility Command Museum shifted the spotlight from artifacts and exhibits today to honor a real-life hero from World War II. WWII veteran William Bieber, famed for his bravery as ...
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WWII B-17 gunner on being a hidden POW
Lester Schrenk, B-17 ball turret gunner, shares how the military kept his POW status secret from his parents after being shot ...
LONGVILLE, Minn. - The old man sat at his kitchen table and sipped coffee, a stack of birthday cards displayed nearby. Jim Eide had turned 100 a few days before. "I don't feel it yet," the World War ...
"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 ...
About a month before the Allied invasion of a 50-mile stretch of beaches in Normandy, France, Leonard Zerlin, then a 20-year-old B-26 turret gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps, had a sense something ...
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 ...
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- Engineers at Picatinny Arsenal have developed a unique gunner protection turret, quickly foldable to a reduced height, which will make it easier for the U.S. Marine Corps to ...
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