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    How useful actually were ventral turrets and gun gondolas?

    The US started with remote control ventral turrets with the B-17 and a hole in the floor with an MG for the B-24, then moved to crewed ventral turrets on heavy bombers relatively early on. In mid 44 the 8th air force started removing the ventral turrets off their bombers though. If and what...
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    Schematics Boulton Paul Type E Gun Turret

    Is there anybody that has the electro/mechanical schematics of the Boulton Paul Type E gun turret that was mounted on the Halifax please? What is the big difference of having electro- hydraulic compared to electro only operated turrets?
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    Halifax III Mid Upper Gunner or Rear Gunner position.

    Hello all, I am working on the investigation of a Halifax III that crashed in Wevelgem on 9 May 1944 (LW583 the QO-L of the 432 Sqdr) where I want to find out who was in the rear gunner seat. In the ORB I found the names Sgt. K.L. McCartney & Sgt. W.L. Cantlon. The role of the airman is marked...
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    20mm M97 and 7.62mm Minigun gatling gun with turrent manuals with ipc and diagrams1981 - government public released

    20mm M97 gatling gun with turrent manuals with ipc and diagrams1981 including ammunition - government public released It could be used with helmet aiming system whose liberated manuals are here: helmet aiming System manuals on AH-1 including maintenance manual and IPC - Government public...
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    ShU-32 turret Installation Manual for the TB-7 (Pe-8)

    "Installation of the ShU-32 in the chassis of the TB-7 aircraft", dated 1941.
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    Turretless Northrop P-61 Black Widows

    I've collected a decent library of P-61 books and have been looking for some answered with respect to the top turret which gave Northrop a lot of trouble (buffeting), not to mention availability to the same turrets being prioritized for the B-29. One problem is that three of the books I have...
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    Lancaster parts?

    Hi, I am a WWII researcher in my town Mol-Belgium. I am working on a story about a Lancaster crash in Mol. A few months after the crash someone found a turret with gunner in a field. Someone else told me that he took some parts from the turret. Can someone help me to identify the parts...
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    Experimental B-24J-15-CO, 42-73130, with B-17G nose section, containing chin turret

    Now that would make quite a kit.
  9. syscom3

    B24D question.

    Did B24D's flying in 1942/43 in the PTO have a non-turret open rear gunner station? Not the turret version I always thought they had.
  10. Renders of Boulton Paul type A turret

    Renders of Boulton Paul type A turret

    WIP renders of the turret from my Boulton Paul Defiant modelling project. All models created in Cinema 4D 10.5
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  11. Renders of Boulton Paul type A turret

    Renders of Boulton Paul type A turret

    WIP renders of the turret from my Boulton Paul Defiant modelling project. All models created in Cinema 4D 10.5
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  12. Renders of Boulton Paul type A turret

    Renders of Boulton Paul type A turret

    WIP renders of the turret from my Boulton Paul Defiant modelling project. All models created in Cinema 4D 10.5
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    • boulton defiant paul turret
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    • Album: Boulton Paul Defiant modelling project
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