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 ...

In 1964, a B-52H crew was pushing the bomber to its limits when suddenly things went very wrong. The vertical stabilizer—the tail fin—sheared off in flight, forcing the crew to make a wild ...

He was a B-52 tail gunner for nearly a decade, stationed in New England, many times on lengthy flight assignments. The chrome dome flights took the B-52s to the Baltic sea, ...

On Jan. 10, 1964, a B-52H flown by Boeing civilian test pilot Chuck Fisher and his three man crew lost its tail at about 14,000 ft over northern New Mexico's Sangre de Christo Mountains.

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 ...

A lightning struck a B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 307th Bomb Wing upon final approach to Barksdale Air Force Base: the tail of the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. On Dec. 19, 2017, B-52 ...

A B-52 on final approach to Barksdale Air Force Base in December was struck by a bolt of lightning that tore a man-sized gash in the tail. Control systems for the huge bomber were not affected and ...

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 ...

B-52s have even flirted with air-to-air warfare, with their tail gunners reportedly shooting down two MiG-21 fighters over Vietnam. Time Life Pictures // Getty Images B-52 bomber dropping 750 ...

December 12, 1957 - A U.S. Air Force B-52 crashes on takeoff at Fairchild AFB near Spokane, Washington. All crew members are killed except the tail gunner. The incident is caused by trim motors that ...

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 ...