Anyone have detail pictures of a PBY nose turret position?

[The Inspector]

I can't reacall ever seeing any photos of the front turret/bombardiers station in a pig boat-I assume the poor guy could access the rest of the aircraft thru the co-pilots footwell ala B-26/A-26. Also the 4 gun mod done to some of the BLACK CATS through the bombsight glass area(I know it was sheet steel).
every one I've seen has had the nose turned into a Clipper bow and usually has an APU installed..

[Chris Brame]

Try this for starters:

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/pbyregis ... 028-8.html

Maybe Owen has some closeups?

[David Legg]

A good source of black and white period photos is the book PBY Catalina - in detail and scale by Bert Kinzey and published by Squadron/Signal Publications. It includes good photos of the external features of flat-topped, 'eyeball' and PBN Nomad turrets as well as some internal shots. Picking up a point in the original message, internal access to the bow turret was by crawling between the pilots and under the control yoke not "thru the co-pilot's footwell". The bow turret position was also used to moor a Catalina when on the water, the crew member using the removable hatch in the top of the turret to do so. Most post-war 'clipper bow' Cats had a hatch to perform the same operation.