I'm patrolling the Western Approaches. Fuel's OK. But I need to know how many km I can travel at so many farts to make sure I have enough gas to get back to base. I've run out of farts at sea before, and I tell you, it is no fun to be sitting close to home with tons of shipping to your credit and to have run completely out of farts. U-Boats later in the war had more and more farts didn't they? Culminating in the XXI which could do like 17 farts while underwater without even leaving a trail of bubbles at the surface (one might ask with George Carlin--Where did the farts go?). One shudders to think what might have happened had the Germans had that many farts at the beginning of the war.
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