Tail gunners were the first line of defense, but also the most vulnerable at the back of the aircraft, directly in the line ...

Two B-52 Tail Gunners Scored America’s Last-Ever Aerial Gunner Kills Over Vietnam The B-52 crews were able to claim the bragging rights of a 2:0 kill ratio against their nimbler aerial adversaries.

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 ...

Robert "Bob" Richardson, a 99-year-old Springfield resident, perhaps has one of the most interesting stories from his time in World War II. A tail gunner aboard a TBM-3E Avenger torpedo bomber, he ...

Al Moore served during the Vietnam War as a tail gunner aboard B-52 bombers. During the war, Moore was one of two tail gunners to shoot down an enemy air craft during a mission. He died in 2009 at ...

John Quinlan, 81, the tail gunner on the storied World War II bomber the Memphis Belle. Quinlan joined the Army Air Forces in 1941 and was assigned to a B-17 named for the girlfriend of pilot ...

The late Scott, a B-25 tail gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps who was held as a prisoner of war, certainly had a story to tell. To sum up, as he told me in 2014, seven decades after it all ...