Staff Sgt. Healy was a Ball Turret Gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress named “Pack of Trouble.” He and the rest of the crew were ...

"The Cold Blue" chronicles the heroism of those B-17 bomber crews ... Army Air Corps in World War II,” says the narrator. “It’s called The Death Of A Ball Turret Gunner, and it goes like ...

As a four-engine bomber, it offered greater payload capacity and range than its predecessors. Nicknamed the "Flying Fortress" ...

flew 32 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber. Seventy-two years ago, a pair of boots saved Arthur Leva’s life. On March 10, 1945, as World War II ...