Subject: Night bombers interception in Western Europe in 1944
From: "Brian Colwell"
Date: 7/15/2004 7:11 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: VOGJc.35269$od7.1641@pd7tw3no


"Bill Shatzer" wrote in message
...
Joel Ehrlich ) writes:

Or prehaps to greater effect, reinstalling the belly turrets they had
removed
as "un-needed".

Did RAF bombers -ever- have belly turrets?

Certainly none of the "heavies". It was the dorsal turret which
was discontinued on some models.

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"Cave ab homine unius libri"

The only one I can think of was the Handley Page Hampden.....Didn't have a
very good reputation !!!

BMC

We offered to give the Brits B-17's each with a big fat belly turret.They
wouldn't take them. Big mistake.

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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