The Gunners' Information file was issued to every candidate in the wartime Army Air Forces flight training program. Since the candidates came from all walks of life, the manual was designed in comic-book form with many illustrations and relatively straightforward text. That notwithstanding, there is a great deal of information here. This is your gun, the Browning .50-caliber (the seven functional groups, field-stripping, operation and maintenance, gunsights) Sighting and sights (calibration, maintenance, use), Turrets (Martin Upper, Sperry Ball, Sperry Retractable Ball, Sperry Upper, Consolidated Tail, Emerson Nose, Bendix Chin, Bendix Upper). THIS MANUAL IS UNUSUAL - IT HAS THE CHAPTER ON AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION THAT IS USUALLY MISSING. IT ALSO HAS THE INDEX (ALSO USUALLY MISSING). IN ADDITION, IT HAS AN EXTRA SECTION THAT I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE ENTITLED "Gunnery in the B-29 - Instructions for the Remote-Control Turret System." THIS IS USUALLY ISSUED SEPARATELY AS AAF MANUAL NUMBER 27.
These are not your grandmother's scans. Every page has been hand-corrected to remove as many blemishes as possible. Color correction with a known color standard sheet was used to get the colors as close to the original as possible. Special care was taken with the half-tone images to make sure all the depth and range of the originals is preserved. Manuals are printed in full-color on 24 lb paper and comb-bound with clear plastic front cover and black plastic back sheet.
NOTE THAT THIS REPRINT IS NOT AN EXACT REPLICA OF ORIGINAL BINDING. I have printed a high-quality color scan of the front and back cover on 80-lb card stock, covered by clear acetate sheets.. It looks just like the original. it is a flat, printed image of the original cloth. Again, it is NOT AN EXACT REPLICATION OF THE 3-POST BOUND MANUAL. It is a reprint of the CONTENT of the manual, but not in the exact FORM of the original manual. The book is bound using comb binding.
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