What did the Armies of WW2 do for Laundry? – #OOTF #shorts
What did the Armies of WW2 do for Laundry? – #OOTF #shorts
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This question was asked by AndrewDuff2188! Thanks for the question.
I had never actually thought about laundry being done in war 😅
Red Army soldiers used bath houses when possible, and laundries boil-washed clothes to combat lice, a severe problem on the Eastern Front. A rough and ready technique against lice was to bury clothes contaminated by lice, with just a small part of the clothes showing above the soil. Seeking oxygen, the lice would congregate there and be burned off with matches. I suspect the technique did not work against louse eggs, though.
Not to mention the Finnish trench saunas. They were a thing, especially during the long stagnation phase of the Continuation War. There weren't that many problems with infections, during that period, but even regular washing does nothing to lice infestations, they need other countermeasures and can spread even in modern, peacetime hygiene conditions.
Bunch of lightweights. 500 years ago we only took a bath once a year
imagine the smell
LOL I humpped the Boonies of Vietnam for a year, i had a Change of clothes maybe 5 times and ONCE we went in for a Stand Down and i got a bath !
What a stupid almost unanswerable question. F*** off.
The 1st aviation unit I was assigned to in Vietnam would periodically fly to a rear base and stage a combat assault the following day. What was great was that where we laagered-in was next to a permanent Army hospital. The nurses there would allow us to use their shower facilities. Unlimited hot water and an abundance of towels was pure heaven.
War is bad enough. These are the sort of details that I didn't even consider.
Mobile fumigation vans of WW2
Sounds eerily familiar
A friend of mine in Patton's army said they once went without a shower and change of clothes for three months.
Gasoline was the OG drycleaning chemical, and is one of the reasons the trade was so dangerous up until the invention of other options
Oh, I've assumed that Germans had plenty of soap during the wartime
I am still surprised that America has an Ice Cream Ship.
Finns: Where's the sauna?
There's a book called Windswept Lies of War, and it talks from censored history and hidden secrets to lost files and classified documents about World War II, it's the real deal.
Now I am curious about the Soviets
What about the russians?
My dad was a tanker in n.africa told us many times they washed their clothes in gas they could get all the gas they wanted but not water
Russian method: they didn’t
German and Japanese soldiers by the end of the war: “To hell with washing my clothes, I’ve been wearing the same boots since 1937!” 💀💀💀
Why didn't the Japanese use hospital ships, or disguise their ships as such, to reinforce Guadalcanal?