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European Theater
Allied Air Forces
2-man bomber: 1 pilot; 1 tail gunner (in a separate turret).

I was glancing over a critical analysis of a psychological study. The authors of the study in question claimed the patient, on which their study was based, was tail gunner in such an aircraft. In contrast, the author of the article attacking the study claimed that the study was unsound, in part because no such aircraft existed. It would be interesting if you WIXers could validate the patient's story.

Article link is below.

http://csicop.org/si/2003-05/repressed.html

Well, it's not exactly a tail turret but the turret of the A-20 faces rearward and has a single pilot.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_Defiant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Roc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Skua

As far as "allied" airplanes go, could have been a Mosquito?

Ken

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No

The Mosquito had 2 crew sitting side-by-side, and no tail gunner or rearward-facing turret.

Don't have an answer yet, but don't forget there were TWO wars fought in the ETO with allied air forces.

I would go with the Defian for the simple fact that I have no idea what other aircraft would be like that other than a TBM!

But the Defiant wasn't a bomber, was it? I'd go with an A-20. Most "non aviation" types don't know the differnce between a "tail gunner" and "turret gunner."

SN

As has already been hinted at...

Was the patient perhaps a postwar immigrant from Eastern Europe? The Soviet Union was one of the Allies during World War II (or The Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets called it); and the Sukhoi Su2 was a bomber (well, a strike aircraft, which is close) that was operated by one pilot, and one gunner in a TBM-like aft turret...

S.

If they have the guys name then by consulting his DD 214 and seeing which units he served with it should be a simple matter to cross check aircraft in such units.

Could it possibly be a Bristol Blenheim or a Beaufighter?

Those Blackburns could also be on the right track.

And as for the Mosquito, I think I remember reading somewhere that they did experiment with a rear turret.

Cheers,

David

TBM, TBF Avenger? .... torpedo bomber

Fairey Battle? The turret wasn't seperate as such but it did face backward.

Walrus

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Mock-up only. It was on the prototype IIRC and the drag alone knocked 20 mph off the top speed.

single pilot with tail gunner/turret A-24/SBD, A-25/ SB2C, TBM?TBF, Vengence, Bermuda?

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