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| Waist gunners in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. |
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| Captain William R. Calhoun, pilot of the "8 Ball" B-17, with Clark Gable after a mission over Antwerp on May 4, 1943. |
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| Mapping using aerial photography and a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. |
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| Boeing B-17 waist and ball gunner stations after a mission. There must have been some intense action. A B-17 carried around 5,000 rounds, at around 500 rounds per gun. The tail, chin, and dorsal (the ball turret on the belly of the plane) turrets carried slightly more proportionately. Each of those would have around 1,000 rounds per gun, although as they had two machine guns, it would have lasted about as long. |
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| The only 105mm Howitzer M3A1 used in the Battle for Buna-Gona is unloaded through the bomb bay doors of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress used to transport it New Guinea from Australia. The aircraft also brought spare parts, a tractor and ammunition and the gun crew. November 1942. |
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| Mapping using aerial photography and a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. |
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| Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress coded 3O-J (letter 'O' not number '0') of the 601st Bombardment Squadron, 398th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force based at Nuthampstead, England. |
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| Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses of the 603rd Bombardment Squadron, 398th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. |
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