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To: Retain Mike
Good article but just heads up on some technical thing as it makes it look bad...
The B25B had neither a lower ball turret or tail guns
Only the US heavy bomber ever used the manned lower ball turrets

The B25B normally had a lower Sperry rand remote controlled and sighted turret..while the B25B had them and were removed for the raiders...it was very ineffective anyway and was remove early in the war from all B25

Also the B25B normally had no tail guns..the A had a manned tail gun...the B just had a clear tail cone with no room for a gunner

The later B25s model did get a tail gun portion again I believe staring with the G model

6 posted on 04/16/2014 12:58:47 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: tophat9000

Thanks for the help. I checked some of my sources again and they were accurate. I just didn’t pick up the correct understanding of what I read.


18 posted on 04/16/2014 3:15:39 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: tophat9000
The later B25s model did get a tail gun portion again I believe staring with the G model

Some B-25Cs and D's (and their PBJ cousins) were field-modded with manned single gun positions in the tail.





The G model, which was the C/D with the 75mm gun in the nose, had the standard no-gun tail, but some were likewise field modded to add one.



Production of B-25s with the tail gun position (now two guns) started with the H and J versions, where the dorsal turret was moved forward to behind the cockpit.
23 posted on 04/16/2014 6:33:22 PM PDT by tanknetter
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