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Actually, according to this May, 1943 edition of Readers Digress I have here, the Japanese admiralty made a special effort to keep their ships supplied with the latest in fashion magazines, including コスモポリタン (Cosmopolitan), 彼女が (Elle) and 流行 (Vogue). They tried to get プレイボーイ (Playboy) and 紳士四半期 (Gentlemen's Quarterly), but it was argued they weren't actually "fashion" magazines, and I suppose it was a valid point.
Furthermore, they-
Hey, wait a sec -- are you talking about AMMUNITION magazines? Jeez, how boring is THAT! Bunch of smelly gunpowder, plus all those picky officers never allow smoking around them, the sissies. I mean, what's life without a little risk? I personally like striking the head of a kitchen match on the tip of a 16" shell, just to make the point that I'm tougher than it is.
But back to those boring ammunition magazines for a sec (I particularly like "Ammo Daily" and "Big Bore Digest"), I thought it was interesting that all of them were in the forward part of the ship. Offhand, I would have figured they'd be behind the bridge, in the deepest part of the ship. But I suppose we have to figure the sleuths at UbiSoft did their homework. Unless, of course, they looked up "magazine" in their May, 1943 edition of Readers Digress and stumbled upon the fashion magazine compartment by mistake.
With those wild and crazy Romanians, who can tell?
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