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B-52 tailgunner shot down a MIG 21

Marlan ThompsonVIET NAM VETS
1h ·
Vietnam 18 December 1972: On the first night of Operation Linebacker II,
Staff Sergeant Samuel Olin Turner, United States Air Force, the gunner
aboard Boeing B-52D-35-BW Stratofortress 56-676 (call sign “Brown 3”),
saw a supersonic Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 interceptor approaching the
bomber from below and behind, with a second interceptor following at a
distance. As the Mach 2 fighter made a firing pass, Turner directed the
four Browning AN-M3 .50-caliber machine guns of the bomber’s tail turret
at the enemy fighter and opened fire. In a single 6–8 second burst, he
expended 694 rounds of ammunition. He saw “a gigantic explosion to the
rear of the aircraft.”
Master Sergeant Louis E. LeBlanc, the gunner on another B-52, “Brown 2,”
had also seen the MiG 21 and confirmed Turner’s kill.

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