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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
Lol.
I understand that suspender operations in the Atlantic were vitally important to the task of keeping one's u-boat leathers from ending up around one's ankles, thus increasing crash dive times by upwards of 50% as watch crews were no longer forced to hobble slowly towards the hatch and down the ladder.
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Yes.
Being far advanced of most other Nations in this area resulted in several failures however.
Here's one of the Advanced Suspender Devices in early tests.
Note that while it is doing a great job of holding up the trousers of
the test subject, it is a bit bulky.
Here it is in actual Field testing holding up lots of trousers.
