B17G with a 6 gun chin turret
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cvairwerks
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Pat303: Have you posted this query over on AeroVintage site? Several of the guys over there have massive amounts of B-17 info available.
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Ed Williamson
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There is a bit of information in a recent thread on the Arrse website
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GreenKnight121
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B-17G Fitted With SIX .50Cal Machine Guns In The Chin Turret - Aviation Humor
During WWII head-on attacks targeting the pilot and bombardier were common at one point. What you will see here was an attempt to ward that off. This B-17G was fitted with an experimental chin “turret” armed with 6 fixed .50 cal. machine guns, strange but in wartime, you try everything… The...
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Reminds me of the experimental jury-rigged installation of a 20mm cannon in the nose of a B-17. It worked, but, despite the cannon being stoutly braced, the recoil of the cannon firing was so strong it risked damaging the fuselage.
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Wow.
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English class required a written theme turned in every Monday. Because of time restraints, I usually turned in unfinished pencil draft on yellow tablet paper. The above reminds me of one titled "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies", where a Coastal B-24 with a 40mm encountered a Fw 200 and combat ensued. Graded "passed", the additional comment written was, "How does this come out"?
