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[[Image: AVION_FA_TRGUN.jpg |thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17C/D Flying Fortress of USAAF.]] | [[Image: AVION_FA_TRGUN.jpg |thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17C/D Flying Fortress of USAAF.]] | ||
[[Image: RGunner B-17C-D.jpg |thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17C/D Flying Fortress of USAAF.]] | [[Image: RGunner B-17C-D.jpg |thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17C/D Flying Fortress of USAAF.]] | ||
| + | The waist gunner post of the B-24 during the aerial combat is in fact those of B-17C / Fortress I. | ||
| + | [[Image: RGunner B-17C gunner.jpg |thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17C/D Flying Fortress typical waist gunner station.]] | ||
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| + | == Douglas B-18 Bolo == | ||
| + | Behind B-24's, we can guess a B-18 Bolo. | ||
| + | [[Image:RGunner B-18.jpg|thumb|500px|none|The engine and landing gear specific to the Douglas B-18 Bolo.]] | ||
| + | In the distance, the tail is not this of a C-47 (it lacks the spin in front of it). This tail looking alike this of the Douglas DC-2 is the one of the Douglas B-18 Bolo (wearing probably the code 7373). | ||
| + | [[Image:RGunner B-18 tail.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
== [[:Category:Lockheed Hudson|Lockheed Hudson I]] == | == [[:Category:Lockheed Hudson|Lockheed Hudson I]] == | ||
Revision as of 12:43, 7 July 2013
Short Movie (1943)
Starring:
Burgess Meredith (Pvt. L.A. Pee Wee Williams)
Ronald Reagan (Lt. Ames)
Tom Neal (Instructor Sergeant)
Dane Clark (Benny)
Jonathan Hale ( Commanding Officer t)
Knox Manning (Narrator)
Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of: an American bomber.
Consolidated B-24D Liberator
North American T-6 Texan
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress
Boeing B-17C/D Flying Fortress
The final flypast is done with older Flying Fortresses. Despiste the poor quality of this screenshot, a careful study reveals the lack of rear turret and the smalest , more vertical tail.
The waist gunner post of the B-24 during the aerial combat is in fact those of B-17C / Fortress I.
Douglas B-18 Bolo
Behind B-24's, we can guess a B-18 Bolo.
In the distance, the tail is not this of a C-47 (it lacks the spin in front of it). This tail looking alike this of the Douglas DC-2 is the one of the Douglas B-18 Bolo (wearing probably the code 7373).
Lockheed Hudson I
Martin B-10
Twin engine airplane in the background.
North American T-6 Harvard
Fake Mitsubushi A6M Zero as usual in these films.
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