Two guns were mounted on the sides of the aircraft nose; the nose itself featured a nose turret with two .30-caliber (and later .50-caliber) machine guns. Beneath the B-24 was a ball turret ...
The Ford team found it would need 5 miles of wire, cut into almost 3,000 pieces ranging in length from 8 inches to 32 feet, for a B-24. The plane's components were 85% aluminum alloy and 13% steel.