Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...

In many books and magazines on the history of WWII, few photographs of the venerable B-17 Flying Fortress are ... goes further to state that the waist gunners were forced to use their parachute ...

The B-17 flew more than 290,000 sorties in the European ... There were two machine guns in the main cabin operated by the waist gunner(s) to defend from side attacks. Two more machine guns were ...