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Follow-on comment: Ugh. Two editing errors in the narration. Well, it’s a one-man operation.
And I guess they got their fish from a different supplier, who took payment in cash, rather than women.
Perhaps counter-intuitively for members of a maritime service, American sailors and marines appear to have eaten relatively little fish or other seafood during the Second World War. The Internet Archive, that wonderful resource, preserves this U.S. Navy cookbook from 1944, and this document devotes only about 8 of its 430 pages to seafood recipes. (There’s an awful lot about how to cook beef and prepare desserts, though.)
Sometimes I wonder that any Americans living at mid-century got past the age of 50 or so.
Well, they led dangerous lives in trying times. They probably cared more about eating to their satisfaction than to their health.
You used to get Steak and Eggs for Breakfast before a landing, because chances are you’d be eating out of cans for weeks, if you were eating at all after the landing.
Is the next chapter about “weaponizing” the octopus?
An excellent question the answer to which would involve spoilers, unfortunately.