Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. An armourer attends to the rearward-firing .303 Vickers K-type gas-operated machine gun in a blister-turret fitted under the nose of Bristol Blenheim Mark IV, R3874, of No. 110 Squadron RAF at Wattisham, Suffolk. The K gun augmented the Blenheim's main defensive armament in providing some defence against a low rear attack by enemy fighters. Comment: The gun appears to be the belt-fed Vickers Mk II, not the magazine-fed Vickers K.

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