In 1943, B-17 tail gunner Eugene Moran plummeted towards Earth in the severed tail section of his bomber after a Luftwaffe attack over Bremen. With a bullet-riddled parachute, his fate seemed sealed.

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, ...

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 recent ...

Former WWII prisoner of war Russell Scott pauses on March 26, 2014, during an interview at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Va. to look at the model he built of a B25J, similar to the one he ...

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 on ...

World War II veteran Beryl Kindred, 86, still remembers bailing out of his plane, then discovering a tear in his parachute. Kindred was a tail-gunner on a B-17 bomber, stationed in Molesworth, England ...

The keynote speaker was Marianne Mogon of Lake George, who shared the story of her uncle, George Robert Caron. Caron was the tail-gunner on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay” that ...

A Memorial Day ceremony at Hillside Memorial Park in Redlands on Monday, May 31, paid tribute to military service members who made the ultimate sacrifice. Vietnam veteran Mick Gallagher, the longtime ...

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 from ...