Trapped in the shattered remains of a burning bomber, a lone B-17 tail gunner faced certain death high above Europe—yet lived to tell the tale. This is the astonishing true story of survival against ...
GOTHENBURG — Like many a veteran of many a war, Charles Stuart Bachmann long kept his memories of his World War II combat to himself. Only in recent years, family members say, has the 93-year-old ...
Francis L. Heimiller, a World War II veteran and prisoner of war, died July 14 in Boulder City, Nev., after a brief illness. He was 88. Born in Buffalo, he grew up on a small farm on Smith Road in ...
A U.S. Army Air Forces staff sergeant was laid to rest Monday in North Carolina, eight decades after he went missing when his bomber was shot down over France during World War II. Robert Ferris Jr., ...
"My first mission was my worst:" Jim Harper recalls "scary" duty as B-17 tail gunner in World War II
His first mission was so frantic, Jim Harper says he wanted to become a cook. He can joke about it now. But not then, as the tail-gunner aboard a B-17 bomber over Europe. "We were attacked by 250 ...
As he plunged toward the unforgiving earth, Army Air Forces Sgt. James Raley was stuck. It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where Raley was ...
Apr. 15—On April 25, Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum will hosts its third World War II History roundtable presentation, in which the wartime experiences of Ray Perry — former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...
A 103-year-old Springfield World War II veteran who flew missions over Europe as a B-17 tail gunner died Tuesday. Thomas Eubanks would have turned 104 on Sunday. “He meant the world to everybody that ...
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