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thick pistol – you hold this chap in your hand – keep your eye on the periscope & when you're in line with your objective – pull the trigger - This sets a torpedo in motion & liberates it & away it speeds to its mark - At once you pip off another torpedo & again another & another & by the time you've done this – if you've had any luck you've burnt up 2 - 3 cruisers & killed several hundred men & your luck is in & you're a national hero!!!!Beneath my feet the vessel is full of oil tanks - No part of her but is chock full of something useful for her peculiar calling - You see men everywhere cleaning the bridge copper brass & steel workings - Everything is kept at a very very high stage of efficiency - When they dive they breathe the air shut up in the Submarine by the act of diving but if necessary they have compressed air in grey painted jars
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