Flying a B-17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft defences, who always marked them as primary targets.

There’s a famous line by General George S. Patton, immortalized in the movie “Patton” that says “You may be thankful that 20 years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your ...

Except for a stint as a ball turret gunner on a B-24 Liberator over Italy during World War II, Guilfoyle spent the following 39 years working as a rougher in the mill’s sweltering North Roll.