Originally Posted by
Blacksheep
I think you'll find that the feet of the gunner were on the end of the Bomb-Aimer's legs.
Except on a 617 Special Lancaster where the displaced mid-upper gunner was sent up front - but they fitted stirrups for that operation.
Lancaster crew - Pilot, Navigator, Engineer, Bomb Aimer, Wireless Operator (generally dual trade WOP/AG just in case), Mid-upper Gunner, Rear Gunner. Seven men altogether and no Front Gunner.
I understood the Lancaster crew to be; Pilot, Flight Engineer, Navigator, Wireless Operator, Rear Gunner, Mid Upper Gunner, Nose Gunner; with the Navigator moving to the Bomb Aimers position for visual bombing.
If he was Radar Bombing, that is H2S or Gee-H, he stayed in the Navigators seat.