A firsthand account of a ball turret gunner’s combat experience and bailout from a B-17, preserving a veteran’s wartime story ...
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 ...
Suspended beneath the B-17, the ball turret gunner faced enemy fire with little armor and no escape. It was one of the deadliest positions of World War II.