Don’t want to thrash this to death, but I still like the mirror proposal!
The trailing aerial, of which I have now seen about a hundred photos, is on the other side of the fuselage, is situated at the bottom, not halfway up, and is a different shape.
It also, as you would expect, trails back toward the tail. This thing points forward ! I think it is a pole with a mirror on the end stuck out of the waist gunner’s hatch (you can just see the shadow of the Browning) to assist the ball gunner, maybe during training or whatever – don’t see it as a permanent fixture otherwise it would be bound to show up on other B-17 photos.
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