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 ...
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Why the ball turret was the most feared job in WWII bombers
Suspended beneath American bombers in World War II, ball turret gunners occupied one of the most dangerous positions in aerial combat. Cramped inside a rotating steel sphere armed with twin ...
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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