A firsthand account of a ball turret gunner’s combat experience and bailout from a B-17, preserving a veteran’s wartime story ...
Ball Turret Gunner Who Saved His B-17 On May 1, 1943, Sergeant Maynard H. “Snuffy” Smith manned the ball turret of his B-17 during a mission over occupied France. When the formation was forced low by ...
Wallace Goldfarb, 102, sits recently at his home in Farmington holding a photo of himself taken in Molesworth, England, when he was a ball turret gunner in the 303rd Bomb Group, 358th Bombing Squadron ...