80 years later, a World War II gunner remembers Plus: Good vs. evil. Free speech and the NRA. And a Texas GOP that’s gone round the bend.

Norman’s mind was shattered in the sky above the refinery,” writes Jo Spencer, whose father was a gunner on a doomed B-24 bomber during the Ploesti raid in 1943.

GOTHENBURG — Like many a veteran of many a war, Charles Stuart Bachmann long kept his memories of his World War II combat to himself. Only in recent years, family members say, has the 93-year ...

Arden Mattice, a World War II nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator, turned 100 years old last week. He was honored at the Fox Cities Veterans Round Table quarterly meeting at the Outagamie County ...

It wouldn’t be the last time, though, fate would intervene on his behalf. For Ryan, only a few months into his World War II service at the time, the close calls and near misses were just beginning.