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 ...
EXPLAINS WHY TODAY DIDN’T GO AS PLANNED. QUINTON STAMBAUGH WAS JUST 19 WHEN HE JOINED THE ARMY AIR FORCE. THE FIVE OF US GOT BACK. THAT WASN’T A BAD DAY. THE YORK COUNTY MAN SERVED AS A RADIO MAN AND ...
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 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 ...
(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 ...