Sgt Otto A Sobanjo 755th Bomb Squadron sits in the tail turret of B-24J Liberator “Lily Marlene” at RAF Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England, UK, Aug 1944. [Colorized by WW2DB]

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Caption     Sgt Otto A Sobanjo 755th Bomb Squadron sits in the tail turret of B-24J Liberator “Lily Marlene” at RAF Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England, UK, Aug 1944. [Colorized by WW2DB] ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Date  Aug 1944
Photographer    Unknown
Colorization Note   This photograph was originally a black and white photograph; the colorized version presented here was a derivative work by WW2DB. The colors used in this version were speculative, and could be significantly different from the real colors.

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Colorized Date 24 Feb 2023
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives via D. Sheley
 
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Added By David Stubblebine
Photo Size 2,848 x 3,712 pixels



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1. Commenter identity confirmed Bill says:
20 Apr 2015 07:47:59 AM

EAT LEAD!

For enemy pilots the tail position was just as deadly as the other positions. Gunners were trained to fire their weapons in short bursts, each fifty caliber machine gun carried 600 rounds per gun, that's 1,200 rounds sounds like a lot, but in the heat of battle you got to make every round count.
Ammo was fed via a long feed chute as far back to the waist gunners positions. Weapons were sighted
using either the K-7 or K-13 compensating gun sight. B-24J production 6,678 were built, the last
production version B-24M 2,593 built.

On an operational mission, Sgt. Sobanjo would be
protected from the freezing cold at 30,000 feet wearing electrical heated flying suit, gloves, boots, flak vest helmet, goggles and oxygen mask.
Near the end of the war, many brand new B-24s were flown from factories to storage facilities, never serving in operational squadrons, most were sold as war surplus or scrapped.
The B-24 served in the post war era and late phased out in the 1950s the last B-24 served with the US Coast Guard until 1959.

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