A dorsal gunner, mid-upper gunner or top gunner is an air gunner responsible for operating a gun position or turret located on the upper (dorsal) fuselage, between the cockpit and tail of some military aircraft.
Between World War I and the 1950s, most heavy bombers, large attack/strike aircraft and long-range maritime patrol aircraft featured a dorsal, mid-upper or top gun position.
The Martin 250 CE or Model 23A turret, with twin Browning M2 .50 (12.7 mm) machine guns, was used on several different Allied bombers during World War II, including the Avro Lancaster B Mk X (shown here) and some Consolidated B-24 Liberators.
During World War II, the mid-upper gunners of British Commonwealth heavy bomber crews were regarded as the primary observer of a crew, and were responsible for detecting the approach of enemy fighter aircraft, as well preventing collisions with friendly aircraft and accidental mid-air bomb strikes.
A dorsalgunner, mid-upper gunner or top gunner is an air gunner responsible for operating a gun position or turret located on the upper (dorsal) fuselage...
A tail gunner or rear gunner is a crewman on a military aircraft who functions as a gunner defending against enemy fighter or interceptor attacks from...
valise, she reluctantly allows the only friendly crew member, USAAF dorsalgunner Walter Quaid, to store it. During takeoff, Maude sees another aircraft...
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pilot, an observer/bomb aimer/forward gunner, dorsalgunner/radio operator and a flight engineer/ventral gunner. As with the Dornier Do 17, the crew were...
twin fin-and-rudder configuration that provided good vision for the dorsalgunner. The cockpit housed the pilot and fighting controller's position underneath...
characteristics Crew: 4 (pilot, navigator/bomb aimer, radio operator/dorsalgunner, ventral gunner) Length: 53 ft 7 in (16.33 m) Wingspan: 69 ft 2 in (21.08 m)...
which the pilot had a reflector sight. The dorsalgunner had a UBT machine gun in a turret while the ventral gunner fired another UB through a hatch. The bomb...
when taxiing. A twin tail can also simplify hangar requirements, give dorsalgunners enhanced firing area, and in some cases reduce the aircraft's weight...
feeding system of the MAC 34 would require too frequent reloadings for dorsalgunners, and was impractical for wing mountings, so it required the development...
two dorsal turret guns plus one of the three forward-firing nose guns (from 11 available) for defense. Many of the crew were wounded: the tail gunner, Eckenrode...
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