FIL was navigator on B24, had to take over the nose gun when the gunner got shot up. Threw everything they could out trying to make land. We had a test B25, A26 - you think the 17 is small. Only guy in the backof the 29 was the remote tail gunner Dad designed most of the elec. motors on the 29, he would test fire control on Erie when the lake was frozen. Yes, WWII subs were tiny. Control room was a tank on top of a tube. You open the hatch to the next compartment, stick head, arm and leg through, then pull the rest of the body through. Your rack is wherever they found room to put a hammock. The T. Jefferson had mattresses and lockers in a ROOM.