Sabu, the Indian-American actor, made our country proud 65 years back by receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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.

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

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He completed his 50-mission tour in 1944 in Foggia, Italy. While the ball turret is typically operated by the shortest man of the crew, Duran initially was assigned to be a waist gunner.

U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Edward S. Kovaleski, a native of Southbridge, Massachusetts, was an engineer and ball turret gunner assigned to the 760th Bombardment Squadron, 460th Bombardment Group ...

Lester Schrenk, who served as an Army B-17 ball turret gunner during World War II, stands in the forest outside Tychowo, Poland, on March 22, 2025, where he was detained as a prisoner of war 80 ...

World War II veteran Frank Mazikowski (top row, third from left) stands with other servicemen. Taken at his home in Tulsa, Okla., on Thursday, November 17, 2016. Courtesy ...

On January 20, 1944, he was the top turret gunner on a B-24 when it was shot down over Italy. “I was shot down on my fourteenth mission.

Becoming a ball turret gunner With the war starting shortly thereafter, Cook said he enlisted at into the Army Air Corp after taking all necessary tests at the age of 17.

Staff Sgt. Healy was a Ball Turret Gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress named “Pack of Trouble.” He and the rest of the crew were members of the “Bloody” 100th Bomber Group.