Grievances can not wronged their stomachs, this is a true portrayal of American soldiers during World War II, their food is simply outrageously good!
In our country, the soldiers still think that the white-flour steamed bun is a very luxurious object, and most of them even eat the turf and gnaw the roots of the tree, and when the life is extraordinarily hard, the American soldiers have even disliked the canned meat, and they think that these luncheon meats are extremely difficult to swallow.
It was easy to go from frugality to luxury, and from luxury to frugality, because American GIs ate better food, and throughout World War II, Americans' food standards were comparable to those of Germany and Japan.
So how extravagant is their food? What is behind their high standard of food?
For American soldiers, in addition to "GI", there is another way to call them, that is, "young master soldiers". As the name suggests, he is as picky as a young master, especially when it comes to food.
They divided the food into five standards, which were expressed by letters A, B, C, D and K, A represents the highest grade, that is, the best food standard, everything is fresh**, but on the battlefield, this is obviously not always done, so it is relatively rare.
The logistics support department of the US ** team usually prepares food for the soldiers according to the standard of a few people a day.
The B standard ration refers to the amount of 10 people a day, mainly meat, vegetables, juice, condensed milk, drinks, biscuits, candy, butter, jam, pudding, etc., in addition to eating, there will also be some cigarettes, matches, tablets, toilet paper, towels and the like, very rich.
Take the American Flying Tigers we are most familiar with, their food standards are very different from the above, and if we look at the food they eat three times a day, we can appreciate the difference.
For breakfast, they will eat omelette, ham sausage, toast, pancakes, cream, coffee, etc. Lunch and dinner will be a little more sumptuous, such as beef, pork, chicken, etc. will appear on their table, one meat and four vegetables, plus a variety of desserts and afternoon tea.
At the beginningChennaultAt the request of Song Meiling, they came to the ** Air Force to serve as an adviser for three months, and when they came there, they not only had a good salary, but also racked their brains to satisfy them in terms of food.
Even though our country was poor and weak because of the war, for the sake of air supremacy, the people still emptied their families to entertain them, which saddened the chefs who cooked for them, because they asked too much and were too difficult to serve.
For example, beef, they only eat the more tender parts of the cow, and do not eat the internal organs and water parts of the cow, so Long Yun, the general of the Dian army who is responsible for providing them with beef, often worries about beef.
The national ** took out the best to entertain them, and they still felt dissatisfied, and the food standard of the Kuomintang soldiers at that time was 1 a day5 catties of rice, plus dried vegetables and pickles, canned food, etc., compare the two, you can know how picky the appetite of American GIs is.
Next, let's talk about the C standard rations, which are our most common canned food, which is more convenient for soldiers to carry with them when they go out to fight alone. To make canned food, professional in the United States, everything can be canned, what canned meat, canned vegetables, canned potatoes, canned rice, canned beans, canned noodles, etc., only you can't think of it, there is nothing they can't do.
Although American soldiers complained that canned meat was unpalatable, it was already a good thing that could satisfy the appetite and carry it on the battlefield during the war years.
In some film and television works, we can see which side is defeated and goes to clean up the battlefield, in addition to disarming guns and cannons, the most should be canned meat.
dRations refer exclusively to chocolate. Unlike the chocolate we eat now, this one is only used in an emergency, and the Americans make it particularly hard to meet the requirements of being resistant to high temperatures and being able to carry around. At the same time, it also adds a lot of high-calorie substances, such as cocoa powder, sucrose, milk powder and so on.
This kind of chocolate, which the Americans call "Hitler's **", is not easy to take out and eat at ordinary times, and American GIs generally have more *** and c**.
The K ration is the amount of 12 people a day, and the things contained in it are also miscellaneous, such as canned food, chewing gum, coffee, chocolate, biscuits, cigarettes, matches, etc., we can think of it as a hodgepodge.
Aside from these meals, you can't imagine how crazy American GIs are with Coke and ice cream!
Americans love to drink Coke, and in the military, Coke is just needed, and some people have calculated that the U.S. military will consume 1 billion bottles of Coca-Cola a year, which is very rare in the military.
Soldiers loved to drink Coke, and even the commanders were obsessed with the carbonated drink, most famously Eisenhower's request to airlift 6 million bottles of Coke to the front.
After he landed in North Africa, he was tortured by high temperatures every day, and at this time he wanted to drink a sip of cold Coke very much, so he sent an urgent telegram to have 6 million bottles of Coke sent by air, which can be said to be very arrogant and capricious.
Chairman of the Coca-Cola Company at the timeWoodruffWithEisenhowerHe had a very good personal relationship, and he decisively seized the business opportunity that American soldiers could not do without Coke, and declared to the outside world:The U.S. military hit **, and Coca-Cola's canning plant was built in **. So a 5-cent bottle of Coke made American GIs rush to it.
Another dessert that American soldiers couldn't live without was ice cream. We all know that ice cream is more troublesome to make, and it has higher temperature requirements. But none of this was a problem in the eyes of American engineers, who modified the fuel tanks of fighter jets and bombers to make ice cream.
This extremely extravagant method was not only rewarded by the superiors, but also vigorously promoted to other units of the US military.
During the war years, the Americans were not only able to be so successful in their logistical support, but also tried their best to satisfy the appetite of the soldiers, which also had to make people admire their ** ability and the strong economic strength behind them.
We often say that Americans are Yankees, and that the two world wars catapulted the United States to become the world's hegemon, and it made its fortune by war.
In World War I, the United States chose to enter the war in the last year, and it joined the Entente countries with a relatively large chance of victory, and it provided the Entente with the best equipment, which was not given away for free, but was bought by other countries with money.
As early as 1898, the United States has become the richest country in the world, and the industrial scale is also the largest in the world.
In World War I, the United States became the victorious country without much effort, and old countries such as Britain and France were greatly damaged by the war, but the United States was not, and its strength was well preserved.
When other countries began to rebuild, the United States actively helped and participated heavily, and even Germany, a defeated country, was treated equally, and as long as they gave money, it would help them to carry out construction.
When Japanese militarism had invaded the land of China, the United States watched the fire from across the strait, sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, sent oil, steel and other resources to Japan, and took the opportunity to make money, until the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Americans got angry, and then broke off the deal with the Japanese and were forced to join the war.
The United States has always been very sober, that is, when the war can't burn itself, sell ** and make money, so the American GIs during World War II can have such good food, which is inseparable from the strong economic strength of the United States. Coupled with their super transportation capacity, it is trivial for the logistics support department of the US military to transport some Coke or something.
After World War II, the United States even accounted for half of the world's total GDP at one pointThe speed at which the United States is growing is frightening.
But the strength of an army cannot be demonstrated by good food, on the Korean battlefield, our army still defeated the myth of the invincibility of the American army, their captured soldiers ate our food, looked at the spirit of our soldiers, and suddenly understood the reason for their defeat.
We advocate a hard and simple work style, which does not mean that we have to endure hardships, but to be able to have the courage to persevere to the end in a dangerous environment.