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70sEraVet

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6. I have a question that maybe some other Navy vet may be able to answer:

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 08:24 AM

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The line in this story "....600 sailors and crew members had lost their beds...." confuses me. I served on two ships -- neither were Carriers, and both were old WWII ships. Our 'bunks' were metal tubes in a rectangle that had canvas fastened to them with rope. Then a thin mattress on that.
Here is an example:

I don't remember ever having the canvass nor the mattress get washed in the laundry. How did the sailors on the Ford lose their beds? Was there a lice infestation that had caused the bedding to be in the laundry area?
Perhaps just smoke had permeated the bedding and it can't be used?

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