B-17 Bomber Tracking and Firing at a Moving Target

Enclosed is a video discussing how WWII B-17 bomber gunners used their ring sights in targeting and shooting down German fighters.
Topics include:
a. Maintaining a 20 inch sight base
b. The B-17 Machine gun 35 mil-rad ring sight
c. German Fighter Interceptor pursuit curve
d. Rad offsets
e. B-17 Bomber gunner position firing and deflection firing
f. Examples of deflection firing
g. Gunner’s cone of deflection

Library of B-17 Gunstations and Gunsights:
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B-17 Tail Gunner Combat Effectiveness (part 2):    • B-17 Crew Tour of Duty Requirements a...  
B-17 Ball Turret (part 1) Crew Survivability:    • B-17 Bomber Ball Turret Introduction,...  
B-17 Ball Turret (part 2) External Features:    • B-17 Bomber Ball Turret Station, Deta...  
B-17 Ball Turret (Part 3) Combat Effectiveness:    • B-17 Ball Turret, Combat Effectivenes...  
B-17 vs. B-29 Gunsights:    • WWII B-17 vs. B-29 Bomber Gunsight Te...  
B-17 Gunsights for Ranging:    • B-17 Bomber, Using Ring Sights for Fi...  
B-17 Gunsights for Tracking:    • B-17 Bomber Tracking and Firing at a ...  
B-17 Browning .50 Cal Machine Guns:    • B-17 Bomber's Browning Machine Guns.  

A high quality PDF copy of this material can be downloaded here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UkUE...