— 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 wartime kill by a tail ...
(U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.) — A B-52 tail gunner from the Vietnam War will be honored on Friday, Oct. 10 at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), where the very plane he achieved the last confirmed ...
David Kingsley’s B-17 was about to crash ... Without hesitation, Kingsley removed his chute, fit it to his wounded tail-gunner and helped the man out of the aircraft. As his crew descended ...
with only a section of the wing and tail remaining recognizable. We feel terrible about such loss of life and hope the injured make a speedy recovery. The loss of yet another B-17 is also tough to ...
U.S. Army Air Force SSgt. 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.