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Re: The appeal of Das Boot
Posted by: Patrick Meagher ()
Date: September 24, 2002 02:19AM

<HTML>I served on a Fleet Snorkel boat in 1961 and 1962. When people have asked me what it was like to serve on a submarine when I went into the Submarine Service, I tell them to watch "Das Boot" thats what it was like. 47 consecutive days without showers. Riding out a typhoon on the surface in WesPac. Getting caught and being held down by the "bad guys" for over 30 hours on a "northern run." A three day ships party in Yokosuka Japan (looked a lot like that party in the movie without the shooting). The boredom of long periods of "nothing happening." The "crawling monsters." A major engine room flooding casualty during a battery charge causing loss of all electrical power in the boat, fire in maneuvering room, depth excursion, and damn near loss of the boat. My one and only no @!#$, scared the hell out of me damn near violated rule two of submarine operations.

that was when submarines and submarine sailors were the real deal and I would do it all over again and wouldn't change a thing, except for the no-@!#$ flooding-fire-sinking casualty, I could do without that. DBF

Patrick Meagher, TMC(SS) USN Retired</HTML>

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