| Kyt
Thanks for the photo of the gunner. He certainly didn't have a lot of room - looks as though the gun mounting might have had to be pulled forward from a recess behind the rear cockpit to be used. Clearly he could only fire directly rearward if it was possible to pivot the mounting upward.
Probably it was always assumed that the Lysander's protection would be from fighter units flying top cover, rather than having to protect itself. This was the situation in WW1 I assume they would have followed that practice. But in the chaos of the May 1940 retreat, it can be imagined that all too often fighter escort just didn't happen. |