50-caliber machine guns, he let loose a six-second burst of about 700 rounds from his tail gun … ‘There was ... into the annals of American aerial gunner history. Fratus picks up the story ...

Experience WWII air combat from the deadliest seat in the sky - the tail gunner's. IL-2 Sturmovik’s Great Battles V3 puts you in the rear cockpit as enemy fighters swarm.

As he plunged toward the unforgiving earth, Army Air Forces Sgt. James Raley was stuck. It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where ...

World War II veteran Russell L. Scott, a B-25 tail gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps who was a prisoner of war, had a story to tell. Virginia Commonwealth ...

During his tour in the Army Air Forces, Joseph L. Dispenza was a “floater.” He was a tail gunner, but he wasn’t assigned to a specific plane; he simply filled in when and where he was needed ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

I sneaked in here. I am a retired USAF Officer. Served as a tail gunner in B-17 (Flying Fortress with the 8th AAF at Rougham, Suffolk in 1944. Served at Raf Mildenhall (also headquarters of 3 ...

What You Need to Know: Airman 1st Class Albert Moore, the last U.S. airman to down an enemy fighter as a B-52 tail gunner, was honored this month at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.

— A B-52 tail gunner from the Vietnam War will be honored on Friday, Oct. 11 at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), where the very plane he achieved the last confirm… Skip to content FOX21 ...

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His good aim, after years of practice while growing up on a farm in Haskell County Texas, earned him a spot as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber named Heavy Date, which saw ...