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 was ...

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 ...