Leonard Dowling, who turned 100 on June 21, shared some of his WWII experience about getting shot down in a Liberator bomber ...

Leonard Dowling of DeLand was a ball turret gunner on the doomed bomber aircraft. It was September 1944, and he was 19. The bomber was shot down over Karlsruhe, Germany.

Leonard Dowling, a turret gunner on a B24 bomber shot down over Germany in 1944, and liberated in a 700-mile march, celebrated 100 on June 21.

A casualty survey for the 8th Air Force reports that the ball turret had the lowest fatality rate of any gunner, but another frequently cited statistic insists the ball turret had double the mortality ...

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp ...