(U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.) — 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 confirmed ...
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. -Moore, ...
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WWII Dogfights Through the Eyes of a Tail Gunner
This compilation video features some of the best tail gunner highlights from recent sessions in the World War II flight simulator IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles. It showcases tense defensive ...
The story of Eugene Moran wasn't unique. This video reveals two other documented cases where B-17 and B-24 tail gunners survived catastrophic falls in severed tail sections. We feature a firsthand ...
On the living room wall of Wayne Lim's west Houston home hangs a small, framed snapshot of the B-24 bomber crew he flew with during World War II. Lim, 82, murmured each man's name sadly on a recent ...
Former WWII prisoner of war Russell Scott pauses on March 26, 2014, during an interview at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Va. to look at the model he built of a B25J, similar to the one he ...
The B-52 crews were able to claim the bragging rights of a 2:0 kill ratio against their nimbler aerial adversaries. “The first shootdown came on Dec. 18, 1972, after Turner’s B-52D took off from ...
The keynote speaker was Marianne Mogon of Lake George, who shared the story of her uncle, George Robert Caron. Caron was the tail-gunner on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay” that ...
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