Weapon Training: Gunnery

This part of the "Weapons School" is about aerial gunnery, gun-sights of the various types, theory of aerial gunnery, eventually the guns  and the proper use in combat - themselves and all the other things a a fighter pilot needs to know about the issues.

Other issues like bombardment or the use of torpedoes etc., will be covered as well. However, these topics will be presented in this section only, as far as the pilot of an aircraft acts in multiple roles. More in-depth coverage can be found (over time) in the "Air Crew" section.

Part one: Gunsight Basics

A short introduction to the use of various gunsights. A number of photographs of various gunsights can be found here.

N-3/9 (US AAC/AAF): Basics.

Part two: Elementary Gunnery

TM 1-270, TECHNICAL MANUAL No. 1-270, AERIAL GUNNERY PRACTICE AND RECORD FIRING, WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, May 7, 1942.

NATC No. 2667, Gunnery Manual, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, 10 July 1944.

Horrido ! - des Jägers Schiessfibel. D.(Luft)5001 - a rather free translation into English, desreibing the use of the GAF REVI series of gun-sights