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Back in September (8th) a thread (Allied guns) ran rather acrimoniously on the subject of a synchronised parabellum observers gun with Chinn cited as source for the information. My view was that the technical and practical difficulties involved made this highly unlikely. A current thread (11mm Vickers) suggests that Chinn was imprecise. I wonder if Chinn was innacurate in his wording? Could it be the case that in the early part of the war when synchronisation was being developed and the Fokker E111 did not exist a fixed synchronised fwd firing parabellum would have been described as the observers gun, because the observer in many types occupied the forward seat. When the crews swopped seats in later designs then this became the pilots gun.
Ideas!!!!!!!!!!
andy
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