[justshutupandtakeit]

I thought the gunners could not get out of the ball turrents until the mission was over. The stories about them say that gunners were crushed when planes had to belly land because of an inability to get out.

[westmex]

You could get in and out of a ball turret in flight...The guns had to be pointed straight down so that the hatch was inside the plane...If the turret got jammed so it could not rotate the gunner was trapped...If the Fort had to belly land the gunner was toast.......

.....Westy....