Boring was shipped to England in 1944, serving in the Eighth Army Air Force in the 368th Bombardment Squadron as a waist gunner on a B-17 called “The Ruptured Duck,” flying missions over Germany.

Fifty-One Missions in a B-24 Liberator." It wasn't to be ... His vision wasn't up to par to become a pilot, so the Air Force made him a waist gunner instead. But don't waist gunners also need ...

Marion Bence, a World War II B-17 waist gunner who later became a prisoner of war, died Aug. 30 of complications from dementia at the Loch Raven VA Community Living and Rehabilitation Center in ...

SHELDON, Iowa | Victor Scholten saw D-Day from 25,000 feet. A waist gunner aboard a B-24 Liberator, Scholten flew out of England over Normandy and south 35 miles to Villers-Bocage, France ...