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=== Did the Doolittle Raiders replace the tail guns in their B-25s with broomsticks? === | === Did the Doolittle Raiders replace the tail guns in their B-25s with broomsticks? === | ||
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Not exactly. Some of the B-25Bs used on the raid did have twin broomsticks placed in the rear of the airplane as a ruse.{{efn|The use of fake wooden guns for deception have a long history in war. So called “Quaker guns” were used as early as the American Revolutionary War.}} However, stock B-25Bs did not have tail guns installed, so the broomsticks did not replace existing guns, but added them where there had not been any before.{{efn|An earlier variant, the B-25A, did have a single tail gun.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lawson |first1=Ted W. |editor1-last=Considine |editor1-first=Robert |title=Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |date=1944 |publisher=Blue Ribbon Books |location=Garden City, New York |page=8 |url=http://archive.org/details/thirtysecondsove00laws}}</ref>}} | Not exactly. Some of the B-25Bs used on the raid did have twin broomsticks placed in the rear of the airplane as a ruse.{{efn|The use of fake wooden guns for deception have a long history in war. So called “Quaker guns” were used as early as the American Revolutionary War.}} However, stock B-25Bs did not have tail guns installed, so the broomsticks did not replace existing guns, but added them where there had not been any before.{{efn|An earlier variant, the B-25A, did have a single tail gun.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lawson |first1=Ted W. |editor1-last=Considine |editor1-first=Robert |title=Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |date=1944 |publisher=Blue Ribbon Books |location=Garden City, New York |page=8 |url=http://archive.org/details/thirtysecondsove00laws}}</ref>}} | ||