Imagine being crammed into a ball turret that's only 42 inches in diameter. Doesn't sound too fun, right? Well, imagine that ...

Jump from the slab on the right to the slab on the left, and then grab the mote from the right slab, and place it on the next furthest slab on the right to start building a path to the far side.

The mystery deepens. New evidence reveals the iconic damage to the B-17's ball turret was not from a fighter's bullet, but from flak shrapnel during the bomb run over Magdeburg. This video uses pilot ...

The gunners of the B-17 Flying Fortress were a different breed. These men endured unimaginably low temperatures, near-constant bombardment by heavy ordnance and cramped conditions to do a job that ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the most famous bombers of World War II, with 12,677 units built. Starting in July 1940, the B-17E variant of this bomber introduced a spherical turret in ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Local author, Judie Ohm, has been chosen to be part of Author’s Corner, a feature at the upcoming EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh. Ohm, of Mondovi, wrote the book, “Turret Tales, ...

Ball turret gunner in Liberator bomber shot down over Germany at 19 turns 100 Leonard Dowling, a turret gunner on a B24 bomber shot down over Germany in 1944, and liberated in a 700-mile march, ...

From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

In this silent video of Boeing's Airborne Laser Testbed, the ball turret in the airplane's nose is seen rotating without firing. In a shoot-down scenario, an advanced telescope inside the turret would ...