(U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.) — A B-52 tail gunner from the Vietnam War will be honored on Friday, Oct. 11 at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), where the very plane he achieved the last confirmed ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...