As a ball turret gunner, his job was to fire two .50-caliber machine guns from a small rotating sphere made of metal and glass, mounted on the underside of the B-17 aircraft. The role required ...

Kovaleski, a native of Southbridge, Massachusetts, was an engineer and ball turret gunner assigned to the 760th ... 1945, after the B-24J Liberator aircraft he was aboard crashed near Hüttenberg ...