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Post #693411 by tiki mick on Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:47 AM

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On 2013-09-13 08:26, TropicDrinkBoy wrote:
Definitely, the Caine Mutiny is a true classic and one of my all time favorites.

I first read the book while stationed in Pearl harbor. It was strange reading about Ensign Keith's first nights on the caine (sleeping with a huge pipe two inches from his face in his rack-same as I had!) and sharing a very similar experience.

Here is a thread I posted a while ago that might have some relation to this thread's subject:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=22663&forum=6&hilite=shit street

Another great WW2 movie that features a pseudo tiki bar is Jack lemmon's "The wackiest ship in the army"