Summary and Key Points: The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress ... two guns in the tail gunner’s position. The First B-17 raid ...

The turret in question could be found at the bottom of a B-17 bomber — a plexiglass ball containing two .50-caliber machine guns and a very short gunner. The sphere could pivot to fend off attacking ...

An F-15C Eagle is sporting a badass World War II-era paint job in honor of a fallen bomber ... tail, and the paint scheme is a mottled green and brown camouflage pattern modeled off the B-17 ...

while gunners were located in the two turrets, in "waist" positions on either side of the fuselage and in the extreme tail.

Al Moore served during the Vietnam War as a tail gunner aboard B-52 bombers. During the war, Moore was one of two tail gunners to shoot down an enemy air craft during a mission. He died in 2009 at ...

In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated by the ... the Bradley International Airport, all but the tail and port wing of the 74 year old WWII aircraft ...

China's development of the H-20 next-generation bomber could challenge U.S. dominance in strategic long-range bombers. As the ...

Ralph Bode flew as a tail gunner on a B-24-H Liberator. Eighty years ago, on Sept. 27, 1944, Bode died at age 20 when his aircraft was shot down over Kassel, Germany. Three people on his bomber ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 ... bomber (civilian registration number N93012) has been all but completely destroyed in the fire, with only a section of the wing and tail remaining ...

The surviving member of the flight crew of the World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed at Bradley ... who crawled toward a light in the tail of the plane while on fire. “It was extremely ...

Troy loved telling stories from his childhood in the mill villages of Greenville and his experiences as a B-24 bomber tail gunner in World War II. He worked over 40 years as a field engineer for NCR.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from B-17 Flying Fortress the Bloody 100th Manage and take control of the 10-man crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress as they attempt to complete 25 harrowing ...