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Flying a B17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and antiaircraft defences, who always marked them as primary targets.
Out of the entire crew, the most endangered were the machine gunners housed in overexposed emplacements.
One emplacement in particular carried the greatest risk.
The Position of the underbelly, ball turret gunner.

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Dejan Milivojevic
Narrator:
Bryan 'Lazlo' Beauregard





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O'Leary, Michael. Boeing B17 Flying Fortress. Osprey Aviation, 1998.
Aircrewman's Gunnery Manual. U.S. Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1944.