The B-17 Ball turret. Every military aviation fan has looked at this iconic piece of ww2 equipment and wondered how on earth anyone could be brave enough to spend a mission inside this cramped ...

The ball turret, like this one on a B-17 in England in 1943, was designed small to reduce drag, so its gunner usually was the shortest man in the crew. Gunners on World War II bombers had only a ...

WWII soldier Sgt. Edward Kovaleski, a Southbridge native, will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery after his remains were identified.

Kovaleski, a native of Southbridge, Mass., was an engineer and ball turret gunner assigned to the 760th Bombardment Squadron, 460th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force, in the European and ...

[Andrew] and his brother had some time (and a lot of ping pong balls) on their hands, so they decided to have some fun and built a remote-controlled ping pong ball turret. Arduino aside ...

Two guns were mounted on the sides of the aircraft nose; the nose itself featured a nose turret with two .30-caliber (and later .50-caliber) machine guns. Beneath the B-24 was a ball turret ...

They were tail and ball turret gunners assigned to fly in B-17s, the big four engine bombers that the Americans believed were superior to anything else their allies or the enemy had. Inspired by ...