B-29A Tail gunner's windows, Fifi CAF 95-14-9A

            Tail gunner's position bullet-proof glass armor 

Note gunsight for the GE system, This is the same kind of gun sight that is available in the left, right and center stations in the Aft Pressurized Compartment, and for the bombarder / nose-gunner in the Forward Pressurized Compartment. The sighting part is at the top, one peers through the eyepiece. The gunner's hands might grip the heavily indented knobs at either side of the sight. (so much to know- does the gunner crank the knobs to aim? or horse the thing around by brute force?) 

Anyway, the GE Fire Control system for the B-29 directly controls 4 gun turrets, front and back, top and bottom. In theory, any one gunner can control any one turret, or one gunner can control pairs of turrets, maybe even sets of 3 or all four. The tail sighting station, here, could use the tail turret and lower back turret for a target coming from low and behind.
subject to the mechanical stops that protect the fin and rudder, they could also engage targets af the aft end of the plane, even if the tail guns couldn't be brought to bear on them.

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