ww2 US Paratrooper Food | Condensed Food for Paratroopers 1941
1941, Newsweek Magazine, Paratroopers

Feeding American Paratroopers
(Newsweek Magazine, 1941)

With W.W. II just around the corner, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps’ “subsistence laboratory” in Chicago was burning the mid-night oil trying to create a nutritious light weight ration with little bulk for the nascent paratrooper divisions.