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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3237768" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>The Gato and Balao boats weren't the ones that gave subs the nickname "Pig Boats," but it wasn't exactly a cakewalk. I've read several memoirs by WWII USN officers who were in the Silent Service, and it took a special kind of sailor to do that job.</p><p></p><p>I remember one who said that his time in the boats made him glad he wasn't a smoker, after watching the nicotine fiends after an extended submersion. He said by the end of a long dive, it didn't matter how much you needed a smoke, because there wasn't enough oxygen in the boat to keep one lit. Oy vey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3237768, member: 26737"] The Gato and Balao boats weren't the ones that gave subs the nickname "Pig Boats," but it wasn't exactly a cakewalk. I've read several memoirs by WWII USN officers who were in the Silent Service, and it took a special kind of sailor to do that job. I remember one who said that his time in the boats made him glad he wasn't a smoker, after watching the nicotine fiends after an extended submersion. He said by the end of a long dive, it didn't matter how much you needed a smoke, because there wasn't enough oxygen in the boat to keep one lit. Oy vey. [/QUOTE]
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