i always thought a chocolate bar was included :)
wouldn’t mind having the P-38.
During WWII my Father sent his entire paycheck home to Mother. Of course she got an allotment for herself and their children.
Daddy was able to sell his cigarette ration for more money than he needed. The army basically provided every thing. He said it was always easy to sell them.
When they were in combat they did not have much need for money.
Around 1988 I worked at a state park for my Summer internship for my Masters Degree in recreation. One of the rangers gave me a few MREs as he was in the National Guard. He actually had a trunk full of them.
The first time I showed one to Daddy, I asked him what they were. He glanced at them and said “rations”.
Now how in the world did he know that? WWII rations could not have been that similar.
I thought cigarette suckers liked the tobacco fresh?
I’ve sampled a Cuban cigar older than that.
Until I saw that there was a key and a tear strip for opening the accessory pack, I was wondering who came up with the idea of putting the can opener inside the can. :=)
This guy has some hilarious quotes from the video.
You’d probably break a tooth on that Topps bubble gum.
My father passed away a couple of years ago and my mother gave me (former Marine) his military items, dad and my grandfather were both Navy men, included in the box was my grandfathers navy p-coat, his Navy cap, and a cracker that had Breast France, written on it in ink, it would have been 1917.
Grandpa was bunk-mates with the son of the Kellogg folks of Michigan at the Great Lakes Naval Shipyard in Chicago, he went home with Kellogg one weekend and learned to drive a car and went to a Detroit baeball game that included Ty Cobb. He later was asked/told to drive ambulances to the front as not too many of the sailors knew how to drive.