{"id":21276,"date":"2026-05-31T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/?post_type=b17parts&p=21276"},"modified":"2026-05-31T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:49:37","slug":"ball-turret-fragment-02","status":"publish","type":"b17parts","link":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wreckage-parts\/ball-turret-fragment-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Turret Fragment #02"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The gray paint is clearly visible, indicating that this is the interior of the ball turret.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A layer of unknown material between the thicker sections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A layer of unknown material between the thicker sections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Comparison with another ball turret fragment (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Comparison with another ball turret fragment (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A thick fragment from a B-17 ball turret. Exact location within the turret currently unknown. Note the gray color, which was used by the manufacturer Briggs for the interior (ball turrets from manufacturer Emerson typically used a greenish interior coating). There is also a thin layer of paper or similar material in between. At the end, there is a photo comparison with another ball turret part.","protected":false},"featured_media":21277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"b17parts-section":[1907],"b17parts-element":[1908],"class_list":["post-21276","b17parts","type-b17parts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","b17parts-section-fuselage","b17parts-element-ball-turret"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17parts\/21276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/b17parts"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"b17parts-section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17parts-section?post=21276"},{"taxonomy":"b17parts-element","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17parts-element?post=21276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}