.50 cal. machine gun

B-25 "Japutie Slugger," #442. Butsika 25, Yangkai, 1945. Note burning of paint on fuselage around muzzles of the two blister-mounted .50 machine guns.

Jim Lane in tail gun (.50 cal.) put in B-25 #81, summer of 1943, Chaukulia, India, as a field modification (see more about this modification here). This should be B-25D-15, #41-30381, assigned to the 491BS/341BG while the unit was stationed at Chakulia. (Thanks for the research and information supplied by Yves Marino and Tony Strotman.)

Jim Lane in first 25 tail gun (.50 cal.) position put in as a field modification by Red Cummings, about August, 1943, Chaukulia, India (see more background about this modification here). This should be B-25D-15, #41-30381, assigned to the 491BS/341BG while the unit was stationed at Chakulia. (Thanks for the research and information supplied by Yves Marino and Tony Strotman.)

Ira Reiber mans a .50 cal. machine gun in Dushan, Guizhou province, China, during WWII.