Suspended beneath American bombers in World War II, ball turret gunners occupied one of the most dangerous positions in aerial combat. Cramped inside a rotating steel sphere armed with twin ...

WWII Veteran Lester Schrenk joined the U.S. Army Air Forces on his 19th birthday in November 1942. He was assigned to the only open position left - a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber. He shares an ...