Additional modifiers for extreme cold?

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Originally Posted by johndallman

Yes. When the Germans were pushed back into Tunisia, which is less of a desert than Libya, he might have been sent to Stalingrad.

Or any place on the Eastern Front where there are lots of troops and limited water supplies. Until the recently-destroyed Kherson dam was built in the 1950s, southern Ukraine could be extremely dry during the summer in addition to blisteringly hot mid-continental summer heat.

North Africa would be the logical place for him from 40 to late 42, but during 1943-44, he could be anyplace in eastern Ukraine or southwestern Russia.

It's boring from an adventuring point of view, but he might also have served as a fireman in Germany as the RAF and USAAF blasted German cities to rubble. Not only would he be a one-man fire brigade, he'd also be useful for creating potable water in areas where the water mains were broken and invaluable as a Nazi propaganda tool. Of course, if there was a female equivalent she'd be on the home front instead of him.

In any case, his real value is water where and when you want it for the logistical price of moving one man and a few trucks full of portable water tanks and fire hoses around as opposed to entire fleets of tanker trucks, desalinization and water purification equipment and all the fuel and men required to operate them. Even better, all those trucks and men normally needed to haul water can haul fuel or ammo instead.