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Originally Posted by IanC
I always wondered about that. If no U-boat crew had glasses, that would be a major immersion killer for me.
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The thing about vision requirements actually came up in a GT thread last week. I'm still trying to remember where I read it so I can provide a link, but I'm positive I read that the requirements for enlistment in the Reichsmarine/Kreigsmarine proper - i.e., the German Navy itself, and not just the ubootwaffe - included normal or better vision without the need for corrective lenses.
If that's the case then having a crewmember who wears glasses (particularly a navigator, who I'm assuming would probably also be the senior man of one watch crew) is not a realistic possibility.
Not sure about Ol' One-Eye, but I'm guessing that even having been dandled on Onkel Karl's knee as a wee babe probably wouldn't get him a pass either, unless - does it say he lost the eye while already in the service?
Either way he should have an eye patch, and I can't see an eye patch. At least an eye patch would be sexy.
