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To: justshutupandtakeit
Far as I know the B-17s were the only planes with ball turrets...Might have been minor mods over the duration of the war.....

......Westy......

87 posted on 02/04/2004 5:40:50 PM PST by westmex
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To: westmex

B-24s had ball turrets, too. They were retracted for landing, which is why you seldom see them in pictures.


102 posted on 11/22/2008 12:18:52 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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