Powered turrets that carried defensive machine guns on bombers of the Second World War, including the spherical ball turret and the Rose turret. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a gun turret fitted to an aircraft. It excludes the guns themselves and turrets on ships or tanks. The turrets were fitted under, over or behind the fuselage of heavy bombers such as the B-17 and the Lancaster, so that gunners could defend the aircraft against fighters from many angles during long daylight raids.
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Ball turret, Wikipedia
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A ball turret is a spherical-shaped, altazimuth mount gun turret, fitted to some American-built aircraft during World War II. The name arose from the turret's spherical housing.
Rose turret, Wikipedia
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The Rose turret (sometimes known as the Rose-Rice turret) was a gun turret fitted to the rear position of some British Avro Lancaster heavy bombers in 1944-45. It was armed with two American 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) light-barrel Browning AN/M2 heavy machine guns, the standard American defensive weapon used in turreted and flexible mounts in the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator and other aircraft.
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