In many books and magazines on the history of WWII, few photographs of the venerable B-17 Flying Fortress are more ... and the story goes further to state that the waist gunners were forced ...

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop of Sebastopol was a waist gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress when it was shot down by anti-aircraft fire on Dec. 29, 1944, on a bombing mission to Bingen, Germany ...