Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: justshutupandtakeit
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....

77 posted on 02/04/2004 12:16:33 PM PST by westmex
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies ]


To: westmex
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps that was brought out in the story I saw but given the fog in my head I didn't get it straight. Then again I don't know if the ball turrents were the same on all the types of planes.
79 posted on 02/04/2004 1:16:14 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson