In article ,
M. H. Greaves wrote:
you thought that was bad; the germans had belly turrets in some of the
ju52's (tante Ju, or autie junkers!!), they werent really turrets in the
strictest sense of the word, it looked like a big pail, hanging down, with a
hatch in the floor of the a/c to drop down into it, must have been bloody
cold in there!!

Not uncommon pre-war - that most improbably-looking of aeroplanes,
the Handley-Page Heyford had a dustbin ventral turret, as did a fair
few other British heavies. As another poster pointed out the original
Avro Manchesters had ventral dustbin turrets, as IIRC did some of
the first Lancasters - but they were found to be useless for defence
and worse than useless because of their effect on the performance
of the aeroplane. I don't imagine the ones on the Ju52 were any more
useful.

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