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The B-17 Ball turret. Every military aviation fan has looked at this iconic piece of ww2 equipment and wondered how on earth ...

The Bradley Fighting Vehicle has proved itself to be lethal and survivable in multiple theaters since first fielded in the ...

He was assigned to 854th Chemical Warfare Company, part of the 384th Bomb Group in the U.S. Army's Eighth Air Force ... They were tail and ball turret gunners assigned to fly in B-17s, the ...

The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft of World War II and vital ... in the bottom of the B-24 created by removing its ball turret. Other supplies were loaded into the B-24's bomb ...