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The nose gunner position on the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster (PA474)
A nose gunner or front gunner is a crewman on a military aircraft who operates a machine gun or autocannon turret in the front, or "nose", of the airplane. This position could be manned by someone who was a dedicated gunner, however, it was more common for him to have a dual role, the gunnery being a secondary position (i.e. his primary task is navigator, bombardier, most commonly). This is different from fixed guns mounted in the nose and fired by the pilot or co-pilot, since those do not require a nose gunner. Manned nose guns were most common during World War I and World War II, employed by both Allied and Axis forces. Early in WWI, nose-gunners enjoyed a period of popularity on pusher-engined fighters; a gunner would be stationed in the nose, covering the arc ahead of the aircraft. Once the synchronizer was invented, allowing a fixed machine gun to fire through the propeller, the pusher-engined fighter fell into disuse, although nose guns were still commonly seen on multi-engine bomber aircraft.[1]
A nosegunner or front gunner is a crewman on a military aircraft who operates a machine gun or autocannon turret in the front, or "nose", of the airplane...
assigned to personnel trained to operate flexible guns mounted on aircraft. Aircrew (Flight crew) Door gunner Tail gunnerNosegunnerGunner Badge v t e...
friendly aircraft and accidental mid-air bomb strikes. Nosegunner Tail gunner Ventral gunner v t e Genevieve Tudor, 2005, BBC – WW2 People's War "Under...
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distinct from remote-controlled turrets also in use. The turret held the gunner, two heavy machine guns, ammunition, and sights. The Sperry Corporation...
gunner, crew member responsible for the operation of defensive weapons, for example gun turrets. Specific positions include nosegunner, door gunner and...
to its target and was shot down near Hamm. Tees should have been the nosegunner but had changed places with Sergeant Harry Strange in the rear turret...
pilot, radio operator, navigator/bomb aimer, observer/nosegunner, tail gunner and waist gunner. A total of 2,685 were built at Weybridge, Broughton in...
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window into the nose. Four-bladed propellers replaced two-bladed from March 1930. The Sidestrand usually had a crew of three: pilot, nosegunner/bomb aimer...
Belmont Hill School.[citation needed] During World War II, he served as a nosegunner in the U.S. Army Air Forces, flying combat missions in the European Theater...
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