What does it take to become a legend? On a fateful day in 1943, a B-17 ball turret gunner risked everything to save his crew. This is the incredible story of courage, resilience, and heroism.

DNA technology proved that Sebastopol’s Yuen Hop was one of three American airmen executed by the SS, then buried in an unmarked German grave in 1944.

On January 20, 1944, he was the top turret gunner on a B-24 when it was shot down over ... Gann was assigned to an official POW camp where he recognized a ball turret gunner who was shot down ...

Twenty-four thousand feet above Germany’s Rhine River valley, the nine-man crew of the B-17G shivered ... the top-turret gunner; and Sgt. Homer “Jack” Nyberg, 23, of Kansas, the ball-turret ...