The schematic and directions are courtesy of our WWII submariner and fellow modeler Frank Sennello of the USS Narwhal.

http://www.blauedrache.net/flushingthehead.html



Steve

Hi Steve!!

Yes I have heard story's of not using the correct procedures and the after effect of it!!
Bad thing - real traps for the "man in a hurry"!!!

Skipper

it's all those little things that are really very important that the general public never ever thinks of. We'ld get going on a long road march in our tanks for hours on end. Thank God for empty soda bottles . :-)

As to the other...thank God for c-rat toilet paper run to the nearest goup of trees, drop your drawers and lean back into the tree trunk to help balance your self. Do a quickie, then run like hell to catch up with your tank that your driver has been creeping along so you could do your business

Thus my rationale for posting that. The same can be said for aspects of history. Seldom do you see any mention of the most monotonous, yet daily aspects of life in a history text. One of the best accounts I've ever read on such things was a diary of a napoleonic soldier from Germany. In fact there is a translated version entitled "Diary of Napoleonic Soldier".

Love him or hate him, Stephen Ambrose was good at adding these little bits of information to his works.

IMHO, these little factoids are essential to understanding the Zeitgeist of the period. Even if it is flushing the toilet....... Or whizzing in a soda bottle. :-)

I'd think they would have an how to diagram by the head, so they don't forget, like they put a shifting pattern on the gear shift of a truck.

That way the sailor didn't turn it into a baday, or how ever you spell it.

Kerry