Life as a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Was Worse Than Hell
No Man's Land
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Life as a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Was Worse Than Hell
A B-17 ball turret protected the bomber by folding one gunner into a 44-inch sphere beneath the aircraft.
Inside the Sperry lower turret, he faced extreme cold, oxygen failure, hours of immobility, twin .50 caliber Brownings, and an escape route that depended on the machine still working. This documentary follows the gunner from entry to landing to explain what the turret did, how its safeguards worked, and what those safeguards demanded from the man inside.
No Man's Land examines the weapons, tactics, and human cost of war.
@nomanslandchannel
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Life as a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Was Worse Than Hell
No Man's Land
12,337 views
Life as a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Was Worse Than Hell
A B-17 ball turret protected the bomber by folding one gunner into a 44-inch sphere beneath the aircraft.
Inside the Sperry lower turret, he faced extreme cold, oxygen failure, hours of immobility, twin .50 caliber Brownings, and an escape route that depended on the machine still working. This documentary follows the gunner from entry to landing to explain what the turret did, how its safeguards worked, and what those safeguards demanded from the man inside.
No Man's Land examines the weapons, tactics, and human cost of war.
@nomanslandchannel