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genkideskan
07-14-2008, 03:34 PM
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/9818/tailgunnerdp4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
ww2admin
07-15-2008, 05:36 PM
Nice! Gotta save some money, eh?
MojoBob
07-16-2008, 09:36 PM
That's pretty much how we did our helicopter coordination training back in '79 -- one guy in a trailer with an ANPRC-77 radio being a "helicopter", a bunch of other guys to push him while going "whocka-whocka-whocka-whocka-whocka-whocka", and us down the other end of the parade ground with another radio and smoke calling him in to the "LZ" :)
Panzerknacker
07-17-2008, 08:41 PM
As weird it may sound the USAAF used something like that in ww2 for turret trainig, only that was a truck the towing apparatus.
tankgeezer
07-18-2008, 09:22 AM
I think thats the future U.S. military if Obama gets in office. :)
Panzerknacker
07-18-2008, 09:40 AM
Damn... I cant find a photo in the web but I have a book in wich there is several, the guy was in a turret with a shotgun and was towed by a truck shooting down skeet in the move. That supposedly helped aiming Bf-109 in the B-17 and B-24 turrets, I dont now if that really helped but it was amusing to see for sure.