Hey guys, just sitting here reading some info on the B-25 and I had a Idea that probably hasent come up yet in the forums about it. In WW2 when they used the 25 to strafe targets, they would sometimes lock the top turret in the forward position to bring a extra pair of guns into the field of fire. What do you think of adding that to the game. Could you make it a extra gun package? So you can have that instead of being able to defend yourself with the top turret. Or use it to defend against attacking planes, but not be able to lock it forward. It wouldnt be a big thing in the game cause you wouldnt need to really change any flight model. Nothing would really get changed as a matter of fact. It could just mean the difference in getting that last building down or something. Just curious as to what yall thought about it. Here is a quote from a website, as well as the link to it.
General George Kenney called the North American B-25 Mitchell a "War Dog". He should know; he helped write the book on the B-25. General Kenney was commander of the Fifth Air Force in the South Pacific during WWII. Trying to fight off the Japanese in a "secondary combat theater" (as the Pacific war was regarded) meant "making do, with what you had". Prosecuting the war against Japan called for a lot of ingenuity. Kenney was forced to use what he could scrape together and make effective. He came up with the ideas and "Pappy" Gunn put the ideas to work. One of the first ideas was the installation of a machine gun "pack". The bombardiers compartment was removed and replaced with four .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns in the nose of the Mitchell and four more in blisters on the sides of the craft. The B-25 became an awesome strafing machine with eight forward firing guns. Later, they rigged a lock for the top turret making a total of ten .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns, all lit off simultaneously by one finger of the pilot!
Then came the installation of the 75 mm cannon. It required a crewman to load, fire and extract the casing. And when it fired it felt like the aircraft had "hit a brick wall", but with its 2.95 inch (75 mm) projectile, it could turn a tank into scrap metal and punch very large holes in Japanese destroyers and barges at a range of nearly 2 miles. The Japanese paid dearly for the ideas of Kenney and the ingenuity of Gunn.
http://www.aviation-history.com/north-american/b25.htmlmy $.02
