The ball turret, like this one on a B-17 in England in 1943, was designed small to reduce drag, so its gunner usually was the shortest man in the crew. Gunners on World War II bombers had only a ...

A TBM Avenger, the largest and heaviest single-engine bomber of World War II, will visit the Raleigh Executive Jetport in ...

That’s where the prototype of the autonomous gun turret they’ve built—called the “Bullfrog”—will go in about six weeks, he explains. I’m almost surprised as I hear him say it and ...