Alas, aerial gunners in the U.S. Armed Forces, at least on fixed-wing aircraft, went the way of the dodo bird in September 1991 when the tail gun position was eliminated from the B-52 ...

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 ...

Airman 1 st Class Albert Moore, who shot down an enemy MiG fighter jet from the tail of a B-52D during the Vietnam War, has been honored with a plaque at the U.S. Air Force Academy.. The plaque ...

June 29, 2025, marks the 70th anniversary of the first operational Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 Stratofortress delivery ...

The B-52 is one of the most iconic symbols of America's military might. The massive eight-engine bomber has been the symbol of American strategic air power from the Cold War to present and has ...

He recalled how he once flew a B-52 that was struck by lightning, which blew a major hole in one of the bomber’s wings as well as its tail while he was flying at night and at a low altitude.

The B-52H Stratofortress adorned with DayGlo orange markings on its nose, engines, wingtips and tail was spotted passing over Amarillo last week on a flight from Barksdale AFB, La., on the way to ...

Col. Scott Foreman, B-52 system program manager who oversees the bomber’s sustainment and modernization efforts at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, and CERP program manager Lt. Col. Tim ...

To avoid obsolescence and extend the B-52’s range by more than 20%, the 16,000-lb.-thrust Pratt & Whitney TF33 turbofans are being replaced by BR725-derived Rolls-Royce F130 engines, a ...

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 ...