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Originally Posted by Hitman
But you didn't serve on a WW2 german uboat, did you? 
Just joking, of course you know it first hand  about a post-war US sub, but I am not sure what was rigged for what in a WW2 german Uboat. Conning tower for red, that's sure. Control room? Hmmmm, not sure, probably also.
In US subs I have readed (In Jim Calvert's book IIRC) that only the conning tower was rigged for red, so the watch crew spen there the last minutes before going topside and to relief the watch standing ones, and also getting used to the red/dark environment. The control room was normally white lighted. But I guess there were many differences from boat to boat, it's hard to say that had something like a standard practice in this  |
The only U boat I've been on is the U-505, well after she was captured.
But my comment was more to the "Red October" comments. Also something of interest, I'm not sure how far back the practice went but crews going topside at night wore special red "glasses" up to an hour before their watch. That enabled a crewman to roam about the boat in areas not rigged for red.