Why Did WW2 Submarines Have Ice Cream Machines?

In 1942, a Kansas farm boy who has never seen the ocean volunteers for the most dangerous job in the US Navy. Two years later he is three hundred feet under the Pacific, sweating in the dark while an enemy warship drops depth charges overhead. This is the story of life on an American submarine in World War II: volunteers only and 50 percent extra pay, the 100-foot escape tower at New London, three men sharing two bunks, a shower every ten days, the best food in the Navy and an ice cream machine hidden among the pipes, torpedoes that hit and did not explode, lifeguard missions that pulled 504 downed airmen out of the sea, two weeks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel for 25 cents a day, a broom on the periscope for a clean sweep, and the 52 boats that are still on eternal patrol. Jack, Pops and the crew are our story's characters. The boats, the food, the dangers and the numbers are real. If you like history told from the point of view of ordinary soldiers and sailors, subscribe to Life on the Front. #history #ww2 #animatedhistory