TJ3 History WWII’s Bravest B-17 Gunner – Medal of Honor Story Posted: January 20, 2025 | Last updated: January 20, 2025 What does it take to become a legend? On a fateful day in 1943, a B-17 ...

Provided Share Seventy-six years after being killed in World War II, the remains of U.S. Army ... was a 20-year-old ball turret gunner on a B-17G Flying Fortress bombing during a mission over ...

He climbs up the plane to try and dislodge the gun and is shocked to find the dead gunner still in place. He hears the factory hooter signal the time and rushes home to get ready for school.

Mr. Makos has written a number of accounts of veterans’ experiences in World War II. This one is hard to beat ... its supporting infantrymen and in 2013 took one (the American tank gunner, Clarence ...