Anti flash cream on ship

[Trigger Mike]

Am watching The Caine Mutiny and before battle the crew is told to put on anti flash cream.  Why?  

[Subdeacon Joe]

To prevent flashburns.
https://marinesinforestgreen.blogspot.com/2016/12/wwii-cream-protective-flashburn-iwo.html

 

 

 

 Not just from serving the guns, but Japanese had buried explosives on the beaches, as well as shelling the beaches. It helped prevent burns from the flash of those.
 

[Trigger Mike]

Makes sense 

[Alpo]

I believe that's the same purpose of these hoods.

 

 

That's from The Guns of Navarone. The German gunners. The guns themselves are in a cave, to hide them from the allies. So there's a lot of flash.

 

 

You have to blow that picture up, but you can see the gunners from the front in it. And you can see the hood covers most of their face and their shoulders and the tops of their arms. Protecting them from flash burns.

[Subdeacon Joe]

4 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I believe that's the same purpose of these hoods.

 

 

That's from The Guns of Navarone. The German gunners. The guns themselves are in a cave, to hide them from the allies. So there's a lot of flash.

 

 

You have to blow that picture up, but you can see the gunners from the front in it. And you can see the hood covers most of their face and their shoulders and the tops of their arms. Protecting them from flash burns.

 

 

Yep.  You asked about flash gear back in 2016. 

 

http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/Letters/Bookforolderchildrenabout.html 

 

 

 

 

[Alpo]

10 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/Letters/Bookforolderchildrenabout.html 

I wonder if she ever finished her book? Seems like it would be a good one.

 

You remember a question I asked 8 years ago? Damn.

[Subdeacon Joe]

14 minutes ago, Alpo said:

You remember a question I asked 8 years ago? Damn.

 

I cheated.  I forget my exact phrasing, but when I googled US WWII flash gear one of the things that came up was that thread.

[Alpo]

[Subdeacon Joe]

20 minutes ago, Alpo said:

 

Hey!  At least I didn't lie to you!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Once it’s on the internet it’s NEVER forgotten.

[Alpo]

I'm not surprised the internet remembered it. I was just surprised that Joe remembered it.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

I'm not surprised the internet remembered it. I was just surprised that Joe remembered it.

 

Google remembered it for me.

 

Found how I found it