Which war?
The Royal Marines had an embarrassing incident a couple of years ago in Iraq when they had 600 soldiers bedded down with D&V. That's an entire Battalion non-combat effective. They had to deploy a special medical team from the UK to find out what was going on.
If it can happen in the 2000s then I wouldn't be surprised if it happened to less than 50 men in the enclosed environment of a U-boat during the 1940s.
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