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> Ice cream was important for morale. In 1942, the U.S.S. Lexington was slowly sinking from a Japanese torpedo attack, before the crew abandoned ship, they brok
by arbuge 1y ago
> Ice cream was important for morale. In 1942, the U.S.S. Lexington was slowly sinking from a Japanese torpedo attack, before the crew abandoned ship, they broke into the freezer and ate all the ice cream. Survivors describe scooping ice cream into their helmets and licking them clean before lowering themselves into the Pacific.
TIL...
- defen 1y agoCompare to the wreck of the HMS Wager in 1741, where some of the crew broke into the spirit room, got drunk, and drowned when the ship went down.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoFor anybody not familiar with the HMS Wager and the subsequent story the Damn Interesting podcast did a nice episode about it: https://www.damninteresting.com/dead-reckoning/ https://www.damninteresting.com/dead-reckoning/
- asdff 1y agoI'm reminded of that scene in The Master where Joaquin Phoenix gets his hooch directly from the torpedos on his ship.
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