Top Honor

WWII Air Gunner From Montpelier Gets France’s Top Honor

When James Facos was squeezed into the ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress, using the two 50-caliber machine guns on either side of him to soften up German air defenses to let his plane drop its payload of bombs, he wasn't looking to get into the good graces of the French. He and the nine other members of his bomber crew,...