How many in a Vengeance ?
ACW418,
I think the greatest number I've seen in the back was five, but then we would have had the guns, the gun mountings and ammo cans still in position. If all these were stripped out (as they might be post VJ day), then ye-es, you might do twelve.
I don't like the reference to "fuselage". With the guns etc. out, there would be a lot of space below and behind the "step" which carried the gunner's seat; it would be very cramped and uncomfortable (and you couldn't see out). More seriously, the control runs ran along the bottom (I think), and you don't want a chap parked on them ! C. of. G. would be off the scale !
I have lived too long to say that anything's impossible, but......,
Danny.