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| S/SGT Bob Arnold standing at the tail of "American Beauty" (008:2S:G). Note the modifcations made to the tail gun. The Beauty was an earlier block "G," and had a flexible tail gun, but non-turreted. This is a field modification replacing the original tail with the "Cheyenne turret." This turret design was not powered, the guns still were mounted on a swivel that the gunner had to manually move. (486th collection, 8th AF Museum via David Brown) |