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Armorers SSgt George Townsend and Sgt George Barker make ready the dorsal quad Browning .50 caliber machine guns of a P-61 Black Widow night fighter, Saipan, 19 July 1944" (National Archives)
Cool, remote controlled turret.

https://svppbellum.blogspot.com/2021/01/il-northrop-p-61-black-widow-vedova.html



https://plane-encyclopedia.com/ww2/northrop-p-61-black-widow/

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As a defensive armament, it was of little practical use, as the radar operator’s illuminated instruments screens degraded his low light vision. The turret was directed by a sighting arm which sat atop a rotating column with firing controls in the grips and fitted with an N-6 reflector sight.
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