The mission on May 25 was his last because enemy fire hit his B-25 over Italy. Scott attempted to bail out, but the escape hatch wouldn’t open, so he had to head-butt the canopy over the tail gunner’s ...
March 6th, 1944. Twenty-three thousand feet over Germany. A B-17 Flying Fortress faced twelve Messerschmitt Bf 109s. In the ...
The is the story of three tail gunners from World War II that cheated death and survived a fall from 20,000 feet in the B=17 ...
The General Carl Spaatz National USAAF Museum in Boyertown offers a chance to experience history during the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum WWII Weekend in Bern Township this summer. During May, the museum is ...
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, ...