Beyond the rear compartment lay the tail turret, for covering the B-36’s “six.” The B-36 Was a Nightmare to Operate The B-36 had some problems. For one thing, the piston-engines were ...

In the tail turret, the 18-year-old Hickman could not see the enemy planes attacking from above and in front, but he could ...

They were tail and ball turret gunners assigned to fly in B-17s, the big four engine bombers that the Americans believed were superior to anything else their allies or the enemy had. Inspired by ...