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It's wartime. You're the commander of a submarine on patrol in the South Pacific. You issue a requisition for material most essential to submariners, namely toilet paper. Nearly a year later, you're still waiting. And, to add insult to injury, your requisition has been returned to you with a notation from the Supply Officer that your order has been cancelled because the requested material cannot be identified. What do you do? If you're Commander Matt Sherman of the USS Sea Tiger, the role played by Cary Grant in the 1959 film Operation Petticoat, you issue a stinging and humorous memo expressing your curiosity about just what the heck those people at supply are using in place of toilet paper, that unidentifiable material, once so well known to this command: https://youtu.be/wcYUWrkrGrI :But this was no mere bit of Hollywood fiction: Grant's character was reciting words from a real letter, one sent by Lieutenant Commander James Wiggin Coe of the submarine USS Skipjack to the supply officer at Mare Island Naval Base near San Francisco in June 1942: The original letter is posted at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park in Honolulu: Sadly, Commander Coe was in command of the USS CISCO when she was lost with all hands in September 1943.
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