[ARC5] More Moron-ities. This Will Turn

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Sun Oct 23 20:51:46 EDT 2011


On 23 Oct 2011 at 19:35, Prince Floyd Petri wrote:

> 
> You better do some more checking. The B-17 did not have any 
> 7.62 308 guns on it. It had .50 cal Browning Machineguns on it.

The FIRST version. Boeing's model 299, had 5 ea .30 caliber machineguns.

B-17C had 4 ea .50s and 1 ea .30.. in the nose.

B-17E was the first model which was really combat ready.

B-17G had 10 ea .50s. 8800 were built.

Ken W7EKB


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