https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II9_fpbGaoI The first US President to go into a submarine was Theodore Roosevelt who was so impressed by the hardships that he decreed that submariners would always get the best food available - a tradition that is ... read more
At first, joining the sub service was a glory job and many men volunteered at once and only the best were taken but as the war went on the sub service became known as a death sentence worse than being stationed on the Eastern Front (70 percent chance of survival versus 10 in the subs) and so men had to be pressed into service. read more
It would be like females onboard submarines. In the REAL world there are to many controversies, problems not to mention temptations. Movies of that time were made after 1947, after equality in the military became law. read more
The Submarine Force lost 52 boats and 3,506 men. USS Gato (SS-212), launched 21 August 1941, was the first of 54 submarines in her class. Gato-class boats carried the brunt of the U.S. submarine war early in World War II. read more