[kach22i]

I remember reading as a kid a story in one of my PT Boat/WWII books about wax in the fuel. As I remember it in lieu of blowing up their own in the process of being captured fuel or blowing up our fuel depots on missions, the Japanese saboteurs would add wax to the gas.

This would cause our PT boats to stop running in enemy waters to be captured or sunk. The wax would accumulate in the carburetors and need to be disassembled and cleaned out.

Don't make much sense to me now, but that's what I remember reading as a kid.