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Re: the smell of an oily rag
Posted by:
Meg Rosenfeld
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Date: July 12, 2003 05:09PM
<HTML>Robert,
Someone a lot more knowledgeable than I is going to have to answer your extremely cogent questions, but I confess that I, too, wondered why the oily rag was so black.
Buchheim has one of the crew talk about Vaseline in connection with a torpedo, but frankly I thought the guy was being metaphorical, as he was making use of, let us say, rather crude double-entendre.
We all must bear in mind that the oily-rag scene was written by Petersen, who was a baby when the war ended and presumably never served on a U-Boat, and not by Buchheim, who was a "Badegast" and occasional pinch-hitter on watch and in the engine repairs on the two consecutives patrols of U-96 in 1941, as well as the "miraculous escape" voyage of U-309 in the summer of 1944.
Regards,
Meg</HTML>
Someone a lot more knowledgeable than I is going to have to answer your extremely cogent questions, but I confess that I, too, wondered why the oily rag was so black.
Buchheim has one of the crew talk about Vaseline in connection with a torpedo, but frankly I thought the guy was being metaphorical, as he was making use of, let us say, rather crude double-entendre.
We all must bear in mind that the oily-rag scene was written by Petersen, who was a baby when the war ended and presumably never served on a U-Boat, and not by Buchheim, who was a "Badegast" and occasional pinch-hitter on watch and in the engine repairs on the two consecutives patrols of U-96 in 1941, as well as the "miraculous escape" voyage of U-309 in the summer of 1944.
Regards,
Meg</HTML>