Emerson nose and tail turrets: operation and servicing (Airplane turrets)

Accession Number F02345
Collection type Film
Measurement 34 min
Object type Training and Technical films
Physical description 16mm/b&w/sound
Maker Training Film Production Laboratory Wright Field
Place made United States of America
Date made 1940s
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

An official War Department training film I-469 produced by AA7 Training Film Production Laboratory Wright Field. A dramatized story of a trainee air gunner practising for an oral test on the Emerson turret unknowingly using an ace gunner as his audience. Uses this story as a vehicle to explain the operation and servicing of the Emerson turret.

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