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Originally Posted by Zero Niner
I'm curious, how much food would a boat typically carry on a war patrol? Two months?
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Depends on certain factors but judging from various patrol reports, seems they went out provisioned for sixty to ninety days if include the reserve, think equivalent of field rations...real bottom of the barrel compared to what normally would eat. Obviously, a major factor was assigned area and expected duration of patrol. A boat traveling from Pearl to the home islands or East China Sea would need to provision for a longer patrol than some of the closer areas.
On some patrols, due to being out longer than planned due to engine troubles, battle damage, or patrol extended by command, they were existing on the reserve rations by time made it back to port. At times reduce to two meals per day, in some cases one meal per day.