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Waist gunners also risked frostbite and hypoxia - from what I seen in the B-17 their O2 set-up was less than primitive...syscom3 said:Flyboy may be correct. The wast gunners were standing upright with no protection.
The tail gunner had some armor plate and the MG's to protect him.