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 ...

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, ...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The Air Force’s last B-52 Stratofortress (BUFF) aerial defensive gunner will retire here Friday May 12, 2017, marking the end of an era.Twenty-five years ...

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 ...

The ball turret, like this one on a B-17 in England in 1943, was designed small to reduce drag, so its gunner usually was the shortest man in the crew. Gunners on World War II bombers had only a ...

Letter: The ball turret gunner. ... This Plexiglas ball hanging from the bottom of the B-17 or B-24 was a heavily armed bubble just big enough to hold a small man and two 50-caliber machine guns.

The B-52 crews were able to claim the bragging rights of a 2:0 kill ratio against their nimbler aerial adversaries. Though they’ve never gotten the glory that fighter pilots have, aerial gunners ...