SBD Dauntless cockpit

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paradisca1

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I have never found a reference to the circled items either side of the floating instrument panel. They are the aluminum appearing levers and the rectangular boxes with cylindrical projections. Can anyone please explain?



Steve P.
 
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These are rear ends of fixed Browning 0.5" guns, and the silver levers are used for their reloading...
(Ups! I answered this question from an e-mail notification, so I can see that much better answers have been provided long before this post )
 
Actually they're not for reloading but they're "charging handles" to chamber the first round in the ammo belt to each .50 cal. They could be pulled, however, trying to correct a malfunction in flight.
 
The black cylinders attached to the rear of the .50 cals are the firing relays. On aircraft-mounted M2 Brownings, the cylinder is used to "pull the trigger" to fire the gun. On regular, field-carried M2's of course have a regular manual firing handle or trigger.

Ed
 


Er, no.

They are the buffer plates to absorb the recoil of the bolt assembly.
 
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