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Offline colmbo

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Re: B-17G
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2014, 10:38:33 PM »
Quote from: Karnak on January 21, 2014, 03:35:22 PM
Removed in the field late in the war.  Reduced the crew and weight of the aircraft.

Hmmm.  Never heard of that, would like to see some documentation.  They did reduce the crew to 9 later on, IIRC the radio operator would man one of the waist guns.
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Re: B-17G
« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2014, 12:00:43 AM »
Quote from: colmbo on January 21, 2014, 10:38:33 PM
Hmmm.  Never heard of that, would like to see some documentation.  They did reduce the crew to 9 later on, IIRC the radio operator would man one of the waist guns.

You mean you didn't read post #13?
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Re: B-17G
« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2014, 12:31:23 AM »
I was replying to Karnak's statement:

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and in a later version of the G than we have the waist gunners and guns were removed.



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