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He is wearing the GQ Parasuit, supplied exclusively to Defiant gunners, which incorporates a parachute harness and life-saving jacket within a smock overall. Four .303 Browning machine-guns are mounted in the Boulton Paul power-operated turret.</div></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td id="fileinfotpl_date" class="fileinfo-paramfield" lang="en">Date</td> <td> Taken in August 1940</td> </tr> <tr> <td id="fileinfotpl_src" class="fileinfo-paramfield" lang="en">Source/Photographer</td> <td> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//51/media-51650/large.jpg">http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//51/media-51650/large.jpg</a><div style="margin:0.5em"></div> <div class="center centered" style="width:auto"> <table style="width:100%; border:1px solid var(--border-color-notice,black); background:var(--background-color-neutral,#E0E0E0); padding:0; text-align:center; color:inherit"> <tbody><tr> <td align="left"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="54" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="80" data-file-height="54"></a></span> </td> <td>This photograph <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205208683">CH 874</a> comes from the collections of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iwm.org.uk">Imperial War Museums</a>. </td> <td align="right"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_(3-5).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_%283-5%29.svg/80px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_%283-5%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_%283-5%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_%283-5%29.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_%283-5%29.svg/160px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_%283-5%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600"></a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td id="fileinfotpl_perm" class="fileinfo-paramfield" lang="en">Permission<br><small>(<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia" title="Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia">Reusing this file</a>)</small></td> <td> This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright/licence">IWM Non Commercial Licence</a>. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. 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