This is not really anything to do with CFS 3. However I thought I would post my question here to drew on the wealth of knowledge that lurks in these portals.
My Father was Bomber Command (Parthfinder) in the RAF during WW2,
In conversation shortly before he passed away he stated that at no time during his service did his Lancaster's front turret ever fire in anger. He asked some of colleagues and they had said the same. He said he knew during the Augsburgh daylight raid and the Dam Buster raids they were used for ground suppression but he never heard of them being used against air targets. He believed this was because for a night fighter to initiate a head on attack against a bomber at night would be virtually impossible to set up due to closing speed. Radar may find the bomber but then they used visual, usually the glow of exhausts to close in. For the night fighter to guy see exhaust glow head on would be hard or impossible.
In fact my Father reckoned the front turret could have been ditched in preference for a belly gun as the threat from below, especially the upward firing guns on some night fighters was his real worry.
Has anyone here ever hear heard of the front turret on any night bomber being used to any effect?
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