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B-17 ball turret gunner recalls combat
A World War II veteran shares firsthand memories of serving as a B-17 ball turret gunner, including intense combat and a ...
Living near Lake Massabesic, Alex Saidel grew up hearing stories of the history lying somewhere below the surface. "I always heard there was either a World War II plane or parts here or something ...
On Black Thursday, October 14, 1943, 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses attacked the ball-bearing factories at Schweinfurt and suffered catastrophic losses. German fighters and flak destroyed 60 bombers, but ...
Wallace Goldfarb, 102, sits recently at his home in Farmington holding a photo of himself taken in Molesworth, England, when he was a ball turret gunner in the 303rd Bomb Group, 358th Bombing Squadron ...
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