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Originally Posted by Sawdust
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Originally Posted by Soviet_Warlord
Oh yes, they often picked up fresh food from the ship if the supplies were floating on the surface.
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Yeah, I read of one instance when a U-boat found a bunch of fresh butter from a sunken ship. They ate a bunch on the way back to port, and all of the crewmen took some home with them to their families (wrapped in cloth, I guess, due to wartime Tupperware shortages)) after docking! |
I remember a pic of a U-boat that had pillaged a sunken merchant's cargo of tires in order to help with the homefront rubber shortage. However, I'm not sure how much that would have helped, since submarines obviously did not have much cargo capacity.
