Sailors loading stores on HMNZS Leander in the Mediterranean about 1941. Heat was always a problem in this part of the world. Off Aden before the war, Jack Harker wrote about keeping watch ‘in only underpants, of that, a towel draped across the knees with which we wiped away the continuous perspiration running down our arms and onto signal pads, turning them into useless pulp.'
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