The mission on May 25 was his last because enemy fire hit his B-25 over Italy. Scott attempted to bail out, but the escape hatch wouldn’t open, so he had to head-butt the canopy over the tail gunner’s ...
Former WWII POW Russell Scott pauses during an interview at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, March 26, 2014 and looks at the model he built of a B25J, similar to the one he ...
World War II veteran Russell L. Scott, comic book hero. Well, sure, why not? The late Scott, a B-25 tail gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps who was held as a prisoner of war, certainly had a story to ...