Which WW2 vehicles/planes/ships could actually be considered "death traps"...

Which WW2 vehicles/planes/ships could actually be considered "death traps"? I know that the mortality rate of Sherman crewmen is probably much less than popularly believed, while RAF Lancaster crews and German submariners had a crazy high chance of dying, anywhere between half and three quarters. Kamikazes are another obvious one, but not all of them went on a mission.

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B17s, LaGG-3s, He-162s, T-26, and IIRC there was a british engineer vehicle that detonated and took out an entire company by detonating.

Didn't the Russians have a fighter they called a "flying varnished coffin"?

I heard that the U.S. Ordnance Department was aware of the Sherman being a 'Tommy Cooker', and attempted to implement various measures to address this issue.
The design team was lead by Sheldon Rosenstein, a convicted child-beater, arsonist, and avid necrophiliac. Sheldon was reportedly pen-pals with Shiro Ishii, and Oskar Dirlewanger. When questioned about these letters outgoing to hostile countries, Sheldon replied that he was merely exchanging 'tips and tricks'.
Sheldon's team designed a mechanism that would lock the crew hatches shut, thus trapping the crew, when smoke was detected inside the sherman after being penetrated and set alight. Not only that, but apparently there was also a following feature that was a re-take on the Brazen Bull.
When the crew was burning to death, their screams would be amplified by speakers that projected outside the tank. The U.S. Ordnance Department justified these features by proclaiming that the Germans would be frightened by the hellish screams of the sherman crews being incinerated, and allied soldiers would be more motivated to fight hard, lest the same fate befall them.
Sheldon also later devised a system that had a 1 in 59 chance of setting off an explosive charge in the ammunition storage every time the Sherman's engine was turned on. Supposedly, this was to 'test the crew's luck before battle'.
This innovation was well-received by the U.S. Army, but was rejected for budgetary reasons. Upon receiving news of the Army's rejection, Sheldon bludgeoned his manservant to death with a fire iron in a fit of unstoppable rage. Years after the war, Sheldon tragically died in a fire, of which he had started in a New York orphanage.

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The wonderful LaGG-3.
Made out of thick plywood, using unassisted wire controls, powered by an underpowered engine that do to the mountings leaked fumes into the cockpit, armed with 2 mgs and a cannon that would often shake the engine to the point of damaging it and had less than 5 seconds of trigger time, not like it would get there because it kept jamming because of poor mounting and quality.
Had a lower survival rate than biplanes and open cockpit monoplanes that by now were a decade old.

And yet, on War Thunder the Lagg-3 is a monster from what I recall. Been a few years since I played though.

The death trap is always safer on the other side

The Lagg-3 is perfectly competitive at its tier. But that’s the idealized version that isn’t made by starving illiterates.

The Soviets referred to their lend lease M3 Lee's as A 'Coffin For Six Brothers'

People say the Zero was the worst jap death trap,but this title actually belongs to the Betty.

The japs fucked up its survivability to give it more range,but the extra range was useless because the fighters couldn't cover it.

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>Rosenstein
>stein
But of course.

For tanks, I'd say some of the worst were the early war British ones (minus maybe the Matila II) and the French ones. Both had some cramped/inefficient crew conditions, thin armor, and poorly thought out escapes for the crew.
The early T-34 also comes to mind but at least that had some armor that was effective against what the Germans were using in their tanks and AT guns at the time.

>tfw Old Ironsides

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Probably, but then the Russians refer to everything as a coffin.

T-26, enjoy your lack of firewall separating engine compartment and fighting compartment

Directly led to the La-5 and eventually La-7 so it could have ended worse

The death rate of Lancaster crews had less to do with the plane itself (though escaping wasn't as easy as it should be) than the missions that RAF Bomber Command made them carry out deep into Germany unescorted and often at low altitude.

Honestly in WW2 I would say that the most significant "death trap" was more often a lack of heavy weapons rather than poor equipment, which would mean that infantry might have to fight without support. Those allied tanks were usually not fighting a German tank, but actually providing crucial direct fire support for Allied infantry, the vast majority of shells fired were HE. Every MG nest destroyed or open area set up as a barbed wire criss-crossed killing ground traversed by a tank was saving so many lives.

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I love this copypasta

any Japanese fighter plane post-1943
all submarines, on all sides

> the French
Char B was an absolute monster, could and did go toe to toe with PzIV and won those encounters handily
fun fact: the famous german '88 became famous when an AA battery used it in desperation, to repel a massed french attack near Arras that was threatening to break the thinly protected northern flank of the german advance and leave the Panzer formations (already separated from their infantry through sheer speed mismatch) isolated and vulnerable.
The attack was not successful, but it so scared Hitler, that a five day operational pause was ordered (insubordinate german generals in the field actually shortened it to two days and change) and Dunkirk became possible.
the Brits could never say no to de Gaulle, because he effectively single-handedly saved the men of the BEF

German U-boats.

Is it really a deathtrap if it was designed to be one?

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