i love the idea that, y'know you didn't have anywhere else to be, and there was an ongoing artillery strike you could just join in on the fun. xD
I heard another story that a veteran Wehrmacht officer who had at various times faced different adversaries during the war of his opinion of them.
He said the Russians were unnecessarily wasteful of their men and the British were professional soldiers and gentlemen. When asked about the American soldiers he said "I don't know, I never saw them. All I saw were explosions."
She carried 3/4 million men during the war, 15,000 at a time. The preeminent cruise ships didn't convoy. Their speed was their defense as they were too fast to be intercepted by U-boats.