Last night I did a little more work on Old 666 continuing to mount all the machine guns. So far we installed the following:
2 .50's in the tail
2 .50's in the ball turret. These fell out during the masking for the paint and will have to be reinstalled
4 .50's in the nose
1 .50 in front of pilots windscreen
1 .50 mounted in the floor behind the waist gunner
Next I moved onto the waist gunners position.
Zeamer's crew put guns where they didn't even need guns, leaving loose machine guns on the catwalk so that if a gun jammed at a critical moment they could dump it and quickly replace it with a spare. Sergeant George Kendrick even mounted a gun behind the ball turret near the waist. "I don't know who would have handled that except the side gunner" Jay recalls. "He wanted all the guns he could get! He wouldn't let another gunner back there with him. He said, 'These are my guns. I'm going to shoot them all. I don't want to be bumping asses with another guy back here!' This was George Kendrick, the screwball of the crew."
Using the twin guns for the top and ball turret from the
Green Hornet kit I went to work
Using some of my Evergreen stock I made mounts for the guns.
Next I moved over to the tail gunners position. I wanted to put the gun site in place
With a pin vice and a very very tiny bit I set to work.
I must say I'm happy with the results
Tonight I hope to figure out how to mount the radio gunners twin .50s
Thanks for looking