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Troop transport ships often didn’t store enough drinkable water to accommodate showering with fresh water.
Instead, occupants could either skip showering or take a saltwater shower, which leaves the skin sticky and “dirty-feeling”. Robert Luchs satirized this uncomfortable reality of life on a ship.
