A B-17 tail gunner falls from the sky after his aircraft is destroyed—yet somehow, he might have lived. This video unpacks the extraordinary claim, examining war records and historical accounts ...

and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where Raley was positioned as a tail gunner had been severed from the rest of the aircraft in a midair collision.

He was a tail gunner on B-17 aircraft and was shot down over Germany Oct. 10, 1943, during his 23rd mission. Baker was captured and held at Stalag 17 for 20 months as a prisoner of war before ...

Gameplay in B-17 Gunner is exceedingly straightforward. Six positions in the B-17 are modeled: nose gun, top turret, ball turret, right and left waist guns, and tail guns. You can jump between ...

I sneaked in here. I am a retired USAF Officer. Served as a tail gunner in B-17 (Flying Fortress with the 8th AAF at Rougham, Suffolk in 1944. Served at Raf Mildenhall (also headquarters of 3 ...

He’s hard of hearing. His eyesight isn’t great. But the memories of his flights as a B-17 “Flying Fortress” tail gunner remain vivid — especially of his first mission. It was on ...

when he and eight other crew members had to bail out of their burning B-17 bomber over Germany during World War II. Miller, 21 years old then, was the tail gunner. It was his 18th mission with the ...

He enlisted in the Army Air Forces at the beginning of World War II and was a tail gunner of a B-17 bomber until his plane was shot down over Germany on the fourth mission and he was taken prisoner.

Arthur Moon, who served his country as a World War II tail-gunner in a B-17, turned 98 on Wednesday, and we had a chance to talk to him about those days of "The Greatest Generation." ...