I do want to add one thing to this - when I talked to our wing leader (Charlie Wood) about this turret about 3 or 4 months ago, he indicated that he would still love to see this piece of history restored (if only cosmetically) and displayed in the hangar. The only problem is that no one's been able to spend much time on it due to continuing maintenance on our flying aircraft, much less do the research needed to be able to even start a restoration. If anyone on here is interested in helping in the project, just visit our website (
www.dfwwing.com) and get in contact with Charlie, I'm sure he'd appreciate anyone who wants to give us a hand with this piece of history as the turret's all we have (no documentation, no "spare" parts, nothing other than what you see in the pictures).