The photograph of their plane was taken by a P-51 over the English Channel, and the story goes further to state that the waist gunners were forced to use their parachute chords and even wreckage ...

Marge Hop Wong was in the third grade when her brother Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop, who became a waist gunner on a B-17G Flying ...

Casey Bukowski served as a waist gunner on a B-17, based at Ridgewell Airfield, near Halstead, Essex, between 1943 and 1944. Mr Bukowski, who turned 100 on Tuesday, flew a glider at Essex Gliding ...

During World War II, he was a nose gunner, waist gunner, ball turret gunner, and tail gunner—and somehow survived his ...

At the Museum of Veterans and Military History it is not uncommon to hear stories related to family members being in the military.