Yahoo

Trains, Rations, and Telegrams: The summer war wouldn't end

Each time we revisit the World War II era, I find it hard to imagine what it must have been like to have been living in that time – to open the newspaper and see, week after week, names of local ...
Task & Purpose

Best of the bad: What was the best C-ration during the Vietnam War?

C-rations were the infamous canned meals that fueled many American troops during the Vietnam War. The proper name for the meals is ‘Meal, Combat, Individual (MCI),’ but C-rat’ is how most guys ...
Post-Bulletin

Vintage WWII — Rochester woman lives under war rations

When life gave Katie Whipple sour milk, she made doughnuts. Since Sept. 1, Whipple, 31, of Rochester, has been following the World War II rationing standards as part of her own experimental learning ...
Tribune-Star

World War II ration books helped Vigo County residents conserve resources for war effort

Following Japan’s bombing of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and the United States’ resulting entry into the second World War, American at home knew there would ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Batch of Undelivered WWII Letters Intended for Japanese Soldiers Ended Up in an Oregon Museum Decades Later. Now, Experts Are Returning the Lost Correspondence to Their Families

An organization devoted to returning artifacts as a way to heal the emotional wounds left by the war is helping the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum send these deeply personal items to the writers' d ...