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RE: Living conditions
Posted by: Torlef ()
Date: August 09, 2001 05:17AM

<HTML>Hi CAL,
The German U-boats were build as fighting machines and not as Luxus Liners. They were send to tropical waters with no airconditioning and to Arctic waters with no sufficient heating on board, because they had to save electricity. Their wet clothing had to be dried in the Diesel machine room in the arctic waters and if the didn\'t dry out, they had to wear them again anyway.
The American submarine from the S-class, the so called pig-boats were under the same conditions. They had no airconditions and no real heating. As the war progressed, the big fleet submarines got airconditioning and even icecream machines, that was unheard of on German U-boats. But even on American submarines, \"hot bunking\" was common as it was on the German U-boats. Not everybody could get his own bunk, it just wasn\'t enough room on a submarine for that.
The Japanese subs had the same conditions like the German U-boats, only the food was even less than on a German U-boat, but it was sufficient for a Japanese submariner.
Best Regards, Torlef</HTML>

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