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Old 19-11-2007, 11:31 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Ok, back to the serious stuff, another boring question from Adrian:

The site is great on the men involved, but unless I haven't looked hard enough, I couldn't find much on the aircraft.

What did they carry in the way of gun armament? I believe that normally a B25B carried a dorsal and ventral turret with twin fifties, and a 0.30 in the nose. I can see dorsal turret in the photos: were the ventral turrets retained or were they removed to save weight? One of the crew was designated an engineer/gunner so presumably there must have been some guns retained.

Given that weight reduction was important, both for max range and to get off the flight deck, I'm a little surprised that they needed two pilots and a separate navigator and bombardier. Can any of you elaborate on why this was necessary?

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