Uh... 'Lines'.. not 'Ropes'... [wink]. Well, according to Capt. Ruhe, one of the guys in S-37 got a barrel of Flit from a store in Brisbane. They sealed up the crew's messdeck and started spraying. The Little Devils tried to get away by running into a drain trough in the deck. When no more came out, the channel was overflowing with dead roaches. The guy took a wooden matchbox, measured it's dimensions, filled it with corpses...counted the number... measured the drain through, did the math and .."Finally he announced the number of dead roaches in the overflow channel. ""Over four million"". "...[page 38]
They hung a fine mesh bug net OVER the mess deck tables so no falling roaches would land in the chow...[pages 19/20]
Very 'real' read... These roach ridden S boats had been at Cavite..across the Bay from Manila, for many years, until scrambling out of these just ahead of the Japs... Lotsa bugs there, man. Hot and humid.
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