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Thank you for sharing. Awesome achievement to get in working.

Beyond awesome. Thank you for sharing.

Fascinating! My grandfather was a nose gunner on a B24 Liberator during WWII for the 726th Bomb Squadron and I never had a chance to ask him about his experience mostly out of respect for his privacy and because I was a child when he was alive and wasn't fully aware of his wartime contribution. After reading the book Masters of the Air and watching the Apple TV series by the same name, I have a much better understanding of what these young men went through and marvel at the fact that my grand father even survived after completing 19 missions before the squadron was disbanded in 1944. Based on the odds of survival, my mother and therefore myself had a 1 in 5 chance of being born. Weird to think about.

Great restoration job and vid! Thanks!!! Pure optical sight? Or analog computer assist aiming?

Imagine doing that at 25,000 feet with the clouds and the continent of Europe passing beneath you.

That's a funny way to wear the M7 Chest Holster.

Really great video of this turret...talk about confined position.....clearing a jam must have been quite complex.....although the turret moves side to side quite quickly.....gun elevation is very slow.....must have been quite terrifying to watch a plane comming at you with cannons blazing before you could engage....

it moved faster than that, right? ain't no way you're tracking shit with that😅

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Can this be mounted on my truck for hog hunting? Lol

Boring, didn't even shoot the Damn thing. Go to Big Sandy Shoot, Ball Turret being shot.

Love this… every time WWII warbirds fly I worry. We’ve and obligation (I my case to my parents) to preserve, but not make WWII artefacts completely static.

i got mine on E Bay New in original box

The last time that aviator sunglasses were cool.

what are the etchings on the ceiling for ?

Come and get some mother f

Couldn’t imagine anything louder than being sandwiched between two 50. cal machine guns.

Interesting to see a turret operate.

Impressive- still leaves you to guess how ??? did you get out of that thing quickly (when the plane was on fire & out of control)?

How did they reload when needed??

This is great.i have never seen any videos showing the inside detail or movements.this was a well thought & engineered defense.

wow! are they gonna put it on a b-24 restoration?

I learned that the highest rate of casualty on the german airborne side was mostly from turret gunners and ball turret gunners... wow!

So your gonna shoot 30cal at the rabbits and ruin your garden in the process

FU***CKING BAD A**SS !! I LOVE IT ! I LOVE IT !!

Fired the guns!

There are some truly appalling gun camera videos of German fighters attacking B24s from the front. Shells bursting all over the B24 nose looked like hand grenades exploding. There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of protection in this little plastic box. I have no words for the bravery of young men that served in such conditions, knowing full well that their chances of survival were marginal at best and that they were largely expected to be killed along with their friends sooner rather than later. On September 27th 1944, 35 B24s of 445th Bomber Group became separated from the main bomber stream heading for Kassel. 25 of the 35 were shot down, three crashed before making it to the channel. Two made it only as far as the emergency strip at Manston, one crashed in Norfolk having been waved-off landing. Only four B24s made it back to Tibenham.

Well In the 1940's this was a high-teck innovation for A bomber

What's with the graduations on the top glass? They're a bit faded so I'm guessing the glass is original,I assumed it would be used by the gunner to call out incoming fighter direction or just tell which way he was facing. They look to be read from inside but also goes up in a funny order, 60, 42, 30, 15.

Seems like the 50 calibers move too slow even though the turret moves pretty fast.

esta vacan pero yo quiero que lo muestre en su perspectiba

It's all gangsta until the neighbor's RC Me-262 comes out of the sun at 6 o'clock high

Very kool, but this thing seems far too slow for combat. I can't imagine effectively fighting incoming bloodthirsty ME109's with this thing. The turret rotate speed *might* work, but the gun azimuth is glacial. Just give me a mechanical mechanism with hydraulic assist, I'll work my arms more in the gym. Jeez!

Nice but whirs the pew pew noises

where was his legs?

Pew Pew Pew Pew!

i have a great idea....whoever owns this turret should rig up a sound system so when you pull the tap or trigger it'll make loud machine gun sounds and too bad you can't also make it recoil, shake and move around as it shoots !!!!!

B24, the worst looking plane that fought WW2

Five projectors because my sixth projector was broken.

You just about got into that turret you fat salad dodger .... Now try and do the same in a B17 ball turret !!

I always wonder how terrifying it must have been for these turret gunners (that climbed into the turret - eg. The sperry ball turret) when their aircraft were hit by flak and plummeting to the earth with these guys still in their turrets - did they black out due to the gforces? We will never know how many managed to get out. Not many I imagine. Horrendous.

Nice! But, why 5 projectors? Why not 6?

Yeah, would love to have that in my backyard with some of the neighbors I have had over the years.

It moves pretty slow to be able to track and shoot planes moving at 300+ mph.

Mad Max meets The Daleks.

"Now...where are those damn pigeons..."

What NO self respecting yard in the Burbs should be without in 2020!

Sooooo cool! HUGE salute to the everyone who worked and fought to keep America free and safe in WWII, and a shout-out to the guys that restored this turret!

Wow. That’s nine minutes I’ll never get back.

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