Looking down into the lower part of the plane, toward the bombardier's station. In this B-24, the bombardier had to crouch on the floor of the fuselage to look though the scope, due to the nose turret mounted above the scope.
Here is a look at the bombardier's scope from outside, looking in through the bombardier's front window.
Since this is a later-model B-24, it features a modified Emerson A-6 nose turret with two .50 caliber machine guns.
This is basically the same turret as the rear turret. This nose turret was added as a modification to the B-24G model. Early B-24Gs and earlier models had an all-glass nose with up to three .50 caliber machine guns.
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