Tail Gunner's Side Door on a B-17G 'Flying Fortress' a WW-II heavy bomber on display this week at the Fargo Air Museum. This B-17 is painted as quot;Sentimental Journeyquot;.

The tail gunner's compartment is in the extreme end of the fuselage and is equipped with 2 direct-sighted .50-cal. machine guns. There are two ways of entering this compartment:
1) from the waist section through the tail-wheel compartment by means of a small door in the bulkhead, and
2) from the outside of the airplane through a -small side door. The latter is an emergency exit and has an emergency release handle. -manual