Kingfisher aircraft gunner operating the flexible .30 cal. Machine gun, circa 1941-43
30 caliber flexible machine gun, in the aft cockpit of an airplane, circa 1940-43. Plane appears to be a North American 0-47.
Vought OS2U-3 "KINGFISHER" Floatplane.
Pilot and gunner board their plane for a coastal patrol flight, circa early 1942.
Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless scout bomber The plane's radioman-gunner test fires his twin .30 caliber machine guns, while on an aircraft carrier's flight deck. The yellow marking around the national insignia indicates that this photograph was taken during Operation Torch, the November 1942 invasion of North Africa.
DAUNTLESS aircraft gunner wearing oxygen mask, operates the flexible .30 caliber machine gun in the aft cockpit, circa 1941-43.
AM2c Jack Cain, USN
Poses in his dress blues, with aerial gunner insignia on his right sleeve, and air crewman device and campaign ribbons above his breast pocket. Photographed in February 1944. Plan in background is a Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber.
George H. W. Bush in the cockpit of an Avenger
Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina
Caption: Two Marine Corps air crewmen, an aerial gunner and an aerial photographer, stand by their PB4Y-1 patrol bomber, watching another plane landing, circa 1943
Lieutenant Junior Grade W. L. McVay, Jr., USNR watches his radio-gunner, K. W. Jobe, ARM2c, check the flexible .30-clas. MGS in their Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" of VS-41 during operation "Torch," November 1942, on board USS RANGER (CV-4).
Ensign C. C. Bevis, Jr., USNR of Brooklyn, N. Y., with his radio-gunner, W. J. Sackelford, ARM3c, of Norfolk, Virginia, on board USS RANGER (CV-4) during operation "Torch" in November 1942. On 8 November 1942, Ensign Bevis scored a near miss on the Vichy French CL PRIMAGUET.