B17 Flying Fortress Chin Guns
by Nick Kloepping
Title
B17 Flying Fortress Chin Guns
Artist
Nick Kloepping
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
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B-17G, Flying Fortress
Crew: pilot, copilot, bombardier, navigator, flight engineer, radio operator, tail gunner, belly gunner, and two waist gunners. The navigator or bombardier used the nose gun, and the flight engineer operated the dorsal turret Chin, dorsal, ventral, and tail turrets each mounted a pair of guns (8). Left- and right- side guns in the cheeks and waist added 4 more. And a single, rear-firing gun on the top of the fuselage made 13. No wonder Luftwaffe pilots suffered from "vier motor schreck" ("four-engine fear").
The most distinctive change was the "chin" turret, sticking out below the nose. It looks like an after-thought, and it was. But the two machine guns there addressed the B-17's earlier vulnerability. This Photo shows the Bombardier position, as well as the chin turret and two cheek guns.
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May 27th, 2013
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