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Stay warm in our b17 bomber hoodie design: ► https://teespring.com/SH-b17 • Life preserver version: https://teespring.com/SH-b17-vest • Flying a B-17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft 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. • Become a Simple History member: https://www.youtube.com/simplehistory... • Support us on Patreon: / simplehistory • Copyright: DO NOT translate and re-upload our content on Youtube or other social media. • SIMPLE HISTORY MERCHANDISE • Get the Simple History books on Amazon: • https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner-... • T-Shirts • https://teespring.com/stores/simple-h... • Simple history gives you the facts, simple! • See the book collection here: • Amazon USA • http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner/e... • • Amazon UK • http://www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Turner... • • / simple-history-549437675141192 • / simplehistoryyt • • Credit: • Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London) • Script: Dejan Milivojevic • Narrator: • Bryan 'Lazlo' Beauregard • • • • Sources: • Drendel, Lou, Don Greer, and Ernesteo Cumpain. Walk around Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. Squadron/Signal Publications, 1998. • Johnsen, Frederick A. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Specialty Press Publishers, 2001. • O'Leary, Michael. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Osprey Aviation, 1998. • Aircrewman's Gunnery Manual. U.S. Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1944.

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