Heavy bomber
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Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry and longest range of their era. Archetypal heavy bombers have therefore usually been among the lar
USAAF B-29 Superfortress, a heavy bomber.
The British produced Short Bomber
The Douglas B-18 Bolo on takeoff
The USAAF B-24 Liberator
Tail gunner
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A tail gunner or rear gunner is a crewman on a military aircraft who functions as a gunner defending against enemy fighter attacks from the rear, or "tail", of the plane.
Tail gunner in a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress, 1943
The Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (model S-25 variant Geh-2, from March 1916) was the first aircraft equipped with a tail gun position
Vickers Virginia in flight
A row of Halifax bombers under assembly, 1942. Note the rounded turret position towards the end of the tail