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Viewing 13 items with the category Armament

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1	Armament B-17 Gunnery Training Aircraft, Equipment	Bendix Chin Turret This booklet describes the Bendix chin turret model "D."
2	Armament Gunnery Training B-17 Aircraft, Equipment	Bendix Chin Turret Operation This small booklet describes the Bendix chin turret model "D."
3	Armament Bombardment Training	Bombardiers' Information File (BIF) This reference guide was used by bombardiers to keep up to date with the latest information and technology.
4	Armament Training	Graduation Photographs Class 41-A, Air Corps Technical School, Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado Graduation photographs of Aircraft Armorers at the Air Corps Technical School, Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado.
5	Armament B-17 Bombardment	Heilman Collection Ephemera from T/Sgt Raymond Heilman Photographs and clippings from the estate of T/Sgt Raymond A. "Bud" Heilman, who served in the 11th Bomb Group, 42nd Bombardment Squadron.
6	Armament Bombardment Class Books Gunnery	Hickam Bomber 1942, Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii A 1942 yearbook for the Bomber Command, Hickam Field, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This book was published in the months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
7	Armament Bombardment Gunnery Mechanics Photography	Lowry Field Handbook Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado Handbook for Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado.
8	Aircraft Aircraft, Pursuit Armament Training P-47 Pilots	Pilot Training Manual for the Thunderbolt P-47N Pilot training for the P-47N Thunderbolt. AAF Manual 51-127-4.
9	Armament B-17 Bombardment Aircraft Aircraft, Bomber	Pilot's Manual for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Pilot's manual for the B-17F and B-17G Flying Fortress.
10	Gunnery Training Armament	Postcards Kingman Army Air Field, Kingman, Arizona Postcards show target practice with shotguns and machine guns.
11	Armament Bombardment Training Radar Aircraft, Equipment	Radar Observers' Bombardment Information File (ROBIF) This reference guide was used by bombardiers to keep up to date with the latest technology in radar bombardment, also known as Bomb Through Overcast (BTO).
12	Armament Class Books Gunnery Training	Tyndall Field Class 43-04, Flexible Gunnery School, Tyndall Field, Panama City, Florida Class book for flexible gunnery class 43-4 at the Army Air Forces Gunnery School, Tyndall Field, Panama City, Florida.
13	Armament Gunnery Training	Tyndall Field Pictorial of Tyndall Field, Panama City, Florida Pictorial of the gunnery school at Tyndall Field, Panama City, Florida.

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Revised: January 11, 2023