Can someone really survive a 20,000-foot freefall in a shattered bomber? One B-17 tail gunner may have done just that - trapped inside the rear of the Flying Fortress as it broke apart mid-air. His ...

Raley -- who joined the Army in 1935 before transferring to the Army Air Forces in 1943 -- loved being a tail gunner, so much so that escaping death did not dissuade him from returning to one of ...

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.