It’s brief but brutal — and for me, somewhat personal. The turret in question could be found at the bottom of a B-17 bomber — a plexiglass ball containing two .50-caliber machine guns and a very short ...

U.S. Air Force Academy Honors B-52 Bomber 'Tail Gunner' 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 ...

1, 1943 as pilot of the B-17 Flying Fortress ... torn away. The tail gunner, Sam Sarpolus, could not escape because the floor connecting his position to the rest of the bomber had been blown ...

Eighty years later, the family of Tail Gunner James R. Hamilton continues to try and secure the recognition and honor they ...

(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 ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during the Second World War. What You Need to Know: The B-17 Flying Fortress ...

An F-15C Eagle is sporting a badass World War II-era paint job in honor of a fallen bomber ... tail, and the paint scheme is a mottled green and brown camouflage pattern modeled off the B-17 ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 ... bomber (civilian registration number N93012) has been all but completely destroyed in the fire, with only a section of the wing and tail remaining ...

(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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from B-17 Flying Fortress the Bloody 100th Manage and take control of the 10-man crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress as they attempt to complete 25 harrowing ...