[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....

[justshutupandtakeit]

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.