Originally Posted by
Saintsman
War is bad enough on land, never mind at sea. I'm just glad that I never had to experience it. Respect to those that did.
I've seen films of the North Atlantic convoys and can say without a doubt that I just wouldn't want to be on a ship that keeps disappearing under mountains of water, so cold that it'd kill you within five minutes of you being in it - let alone having people try to sink you. I have no idea how people did that.
And not meant to be a flippant remark, but I wonder what it must be like if you have to fight but you're not feeling great that day, like if you worked in an office, you'd finally take a sick day - or if the weather was so bad that you didn't need a human enemy because you stood a chance of freezing to death on sentry duty. Like you say, it'd be bad enough on the best of days