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Re: Das Boot Film mistakes, comments?
Posted by:
ROBERT M.
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Date: December 06, 2002 02:50AM
<HTML>Jimbo:
re: Shaving........I was 22 years old before my Chief Torpedoman's Mate told me to
shave the "peach fuzz" off. While on a fleet boat onn patrol near thee Faroe Islands
in late '57, I used vaseline instead of fresh water to shave my face. It does a real slick job, then I grab a rag and wipe it off. VOILA! Another waterless shave. Add a
little "foo-foo" juice and I'm ready for another week for the next shave. anyone can substitute grease for the vaseline.
re: Depth Charging.........Captain Edward L."Ned" Beach states in "DUST ON THE SEA" - (published by DELL Books - 1972) that the depth charges going off close to
a U.S. Navy submarine could make it appear that the sub's hull would spring in and out from the transient shockwave. At the time it was thought that this was an
optical illusion, but after the war engineering tests established that, indeed, a near-
fatal depth-charging could make the hull spring in and out. (Excerpt from Tom
Clancy's "He Lived What He Wrote: In memorium - Ned Beach, warrior and novelist"
published by him on Wednesday, December 4, 2002 12:01 AM.) Yoe can see by this statement, not only bolts, studs and equipment bounced around in the boat
during depth-charging.
That's why hi-tensile steel was used in the construction of submarines,not mild steel.
Hope this helps,
ROBERT M.</HTML>
re: Shaving........I was 22 years old before my Chief Torpedoman's Mate told me to
shave the "peach fuzz" off. While on a fleet boat onn patrol near thee Faroe Islands
in late '57, I used vaseline instead of fresh water to shave my face. It does a real slick job, then I grab a rag and wipe it off. VOILA! Another waterless shave. Add a
little "foo-foo" juice and I'm ready for another week for the next shave. anyone can substitute grease for the vaseline.
re: Depth Charging.........Captain Edward L."Ned" Beach states in "DUST ON THE SEA" - (published by DELL Books - 1972) that the depth charges going off close to
a U.S. Navy submarine could make it appear that the sub's hull would spring in and out from the transient shockwave. At the time it was thought that this was an
optical illusion, but after the war engineering tests established that, indeed, a near-
fatal depth-charging could make the hull spring in and out. (Excerpt from Tom
Clancy's "He Lived What He Wrote: In memorium - Ned Beach, warrior and novelist"
published by him on Wednesday, December 4, 2002 12:01 AM.) Yoe can see by this statement, not only bolts, studs and equipment bounced around in the boat
during depth-charging.
That's why hi-tensile steel was used in the construction of submarines,not mild steel.
Hope this helps,
ROBERT M.</HTML>
