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Betty tail gun

Talon

Talon

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This is from Loren D Everton a Marine pilot at Guadalcanal in August 1942.

In Everton's first aerial combat, he was over-anxious and started shooting at the twin-engine Mitsubishi from 400 yards out. But he closed in and began to hit the right engine. Bits of metal flew off. It started to smoke and Everton pulled up and over the bomber, then cam at it again. He got within 300 yards, choosing his angle carefully, moving into the Betty's blind spot. The Bettys carried a fixed 20mm machine gun in the tail, which could not be turned from side to side, creating a blind spot on either side. He closed in, aimed at the gas tanks, and the whole side of the plane broke into smoke and flame. It fell out of formation, then dove straight down, as it burst into a shower of flaming junk.

What caught my attention is the 20mm couldn't move side to side.


Talon
 
After some googleing around here is somthing.



However these tail cones look like for a G4M1 Betty. I have yet to find any thing on the later G4M2 Betty that CFS2 has.
 
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