"Inside the Steel goes inside the tanks of the Second World War to tell the part of the story most histories skip: what daily life was actually like for the men sealed inside them. How they ate with shells stacked around their knees. How they slept in shifts under the hull. How they stayed warm, stayed sane, and got out when the armour finally failed.
"Every episode is built from crew memoirs, veteran interviews, after-action reports and period technical manuals, then told as one continuous story rather than a list of facts. Some moments are dramatised to bring those accounts to life, but the machines, the conditions and the events come from the historical record.
"If you want to know what the war felt like from three feet behind the armour, subscribe — new documentaries are posted regularly.
"Which crew position would you have taken? Driver, gunner, loader, radio operator, or commander? Tell me in the comments.
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The Terrifying Truth About the B-17’s Ball Turret Gunners . . . "He could not stand, kneel or turn around. His parachute stayed outside, in the aircraft. If the hydraulics failed and the guns froze pointing down, the door was blocked by the ground. And if the aircraft came home without its landing gear, he was the one problem nobody on board could solve.
A poem written in 1945 fixed that job in the public mind as the deadliest in the war. The Army Air Forces' own casualty survey said something completely different — and this video goes through their numbers.
Also here: the man who fell twenty-two thousand feet without a parachute and lived to be eighty-four; why the turret had a maximum height for the man inside it; why the Liberator's version was worse; and why, by the end of the war, the turrets were coming off the aircraft altogether.
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