General Discussion

My Great-Uncle Tony Daverse was a Ball Turret Gunner on a B-17 crew during WWII.

On a flight home in early December of 1944 for Sympathy leave of several crew members, his plane was shot down over the Bering Strait by the Japanese enroute to Anchorage for refueling. There were no survivors.

Whenever I see a B-17 in a museum, I look for the spot below the fuselage where Uncle Tony would have been. He was tiny enough to fit into that cramped space. He was my Mother's favorite Uncle. My husband was 80.