Black Submarine sailors

rman214 · 04-16-07, 04:56 PM

To UBISOFT: How about including some black submarine sailors in your next patch?. Black sailors have served with distinction and courage in the silent service and have been included in most, if not all of the popular WW2 submarine movies. It would add a proper historical perspective to the game.

ReallyDedPoet · 04-16-07, 04:58 PM

That is something that should be done

AirborneTD · 04-16-07, 05:59 PM

They served as mess attendants. How do you want to see that modelled in this game? If you have evidence that they performed other functions, please let me know.

Subsim Monitor · 04-16-07, 06:07 PM

They were only allowed to serve as stewards.

clayton · 04-16-07, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Subsim Admin

They were only allowed to serve as stewards.

What a shame!

Subsim Monitor · 04-16-07, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by clayton

Quote:

Originally Posted by Subsim Admin

They were only allowed to serve as stewards.

What a shame!

Hey, they still don't allow women to serve on subs

04-16-07, 06:15 PM

African-Americans have a distinguished record in American submarines particularly during the Second World War. That record stands in contrast to the difficulties imposed on them by decades of intolerant official government policy. Before the war the government prohibited African-Americans from joining the Navy. When it finally lifted the ban the only rate available to black applicants was in food service, variously called mess attendant, steward, steward mate or officers' cook. During the Second World War these men in the basic rate of steward qualified without difficulty. Here was the irony of their situation - they were officially condemned to what was thought to be a simple rate yet they qualified in submarines which meant that they had to know the complexity of every system on the boat. In actual practice these men served in a variety of submarine jobs including helmsmen, planesmen, gunners, and torpedomen. Officially, they were qualified stewards, but they served their boats in whatever way was needed.

04-16-07, 04:56 PM	#1
rman214 Watch Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 22 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Black Submarine sailors To UBISOFT: How about including some black submarine sailors in your next patch?. Black sailors have served with distinction and courage in the silent service and have been included in most, if not all of the popular WW2 submarine movies. It would add a proper historical perspective to the game.

04-16-07, 04:58 PM	#2
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AirborneTD Engineer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 204 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	They served as mess attendants. How do you want to see that modelled in this game? If you have evidence that they performed other functions, please let me know. __________________ "You know, you might get surrounded." "We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded." --Band of Brothers

04-16-07, 06:07 PM	#4
Subsim Monitor System Monitor Bot Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,502 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 3	They were only allowed to serve as stewards.

04-16-07, 06:15 PM	#7
shmall Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	African-Americans have a distinguished record in American submarines particularly during the Second World War. That record stands in contrast to the difficulties imposed on them by decades of intolerant official government policy. Before the war the government prohibited African-Americans from joining the Navy. When it finally lifted the ban the only rate available to black applicants was in food service, variously called mess attendant, steward, steward mate or officers' cook. During the Second World War these men in the basic rate of steward qualified without difficulty. Here was the irony of their situation - they were officially condemned to what was thought to be a simple rate yet they qualified in submarines which meant that they had to know the complexity of every system on the boat. In actual practice these men served in a variety of submarine jobs including helmsmen, planesmen, gunners, and torpedomen. Officially, they were qualified stewards, but they served their boats in whatever way was needed.