Originally Posted by Danny42C
It looks as if my doubts over "12 in hand" were not valid !
Seems like it ... perhaps you missed the Balbos? Two dozen plus must have packed quite a punch, if [of course] it was all on one target. To which I think you alluded earlier.
But my other question remains ... Plt Off or Fg Off manning the solitary tail gun? As you noted previously, their utility was limited: so why put officers in charge of a solitary 0.5? Were they doubling up as Navigators, to complement the pilots' implicit skills??