During World War II, the Soviets ate brown bread and the Germans went hungry. Why does the US military have meat for every meal?

The U.S. military not only has meat to eat, but also lives a luxurious life from eating meat to vomiting. It drinks 654.38 billion bottles of Coca-Cola in 65.438+0 years.

Let's see what delicious food the US military eats. Take the army's C-type combat rations, which American soldiers ate the most in World War II, as an example.

The army's C-type combat rations are specially designed by the US military for soldiers under actual combat conditions, and there is no restaurant. Type C combat rations weigh 2kg, and there are 1 1 heavy meals for soldiers to choose from. They are respectively packed in six tin cans and 1 accessory bag, and three of the six cans are meat (including ham, eggs, potatoes, beans, chicken, vegetables, etc. ).

▲ World War II famous canned Spam lunch meat.

The other three are bread, mainly biscuits, compressed cereal, raisins, instant coffee, sugar, cocoa powder and milk sugar.

▲ Instant coffee, a masterpiece of American military supplies department.

In addition, there are 9 high-grade cigarettes, water purification tablets, matches, toilet paper, chewing gum and can opener in the accessory bag.

▲ Camel brand cigarettes

▲ Tons of Coca-Cola are publicly available.

How can Americans ensure such a luxurious logistics supply?

(1) The war did not affect the mainland, and industrial and agricultural production was not affected.

Since the main battlefields of the US military in World War II were located in the European continent and the western Pacific Ocean, it can be said that they were all far away from the mainland. The entire industrial and agricultural economy of the United States has not been weakened. On the contrary, due to strong demand, it has been greatly improved.

Relying on its strong national strength and huge logistics support system, the United States even proposed? Infinite logistics? The slogan is to meet any logistics needs of soldiers. Soldiers shoot until they collapse, bullets are in unlimited supply, and there are inexhaustible fresh food at the front.

▲ American canned meat

(2) Develop a strong wartime economic management institution.

Roosevelt specially set up the wartime economic stability bureau, which was responsible for coordinating the fierce competition between military materials and civilian production, and vigorously tilted toward military materials. In addition, the United States also established wartime labor bureau, wartime shipping bureau, wartime manpower Committee, wartime shipping department and other institutions to serve the huge logistics support system.

(3) In order to raise the cost of war, the government issued a large number of war bonds.

Arms production can be supplied indefinitely, but money cannot. Moreover, once the war starts, military spending is bottomless. In order to raise war funds and ensure military supplies, the US government even found a large number of war bonds. This alone, the US government raised $654.38+056.9 billion for production.

In addition to raising war funds, in order to ensure wartime production, the US government also provided loans to new factories serving wartime production, which effectively promoted the employment of the whole people and stimulated wartime production.

(4) Establish a huge transportation system.

The United States continuously produces mountains of materials, and it needs a powerful transportation system to transport the materials to the front. To this end, Americans have established a transportation system that can transport weapons, ammunition, personnel and munitions from the United States to major battlefields.

(5) Establish a unified logistics support organization.

In order to unify this huge logistics line, Americans set up a powerful and unified allied logistics management organization, and formulated an effective operational plan and logistics support route.

To sum up, relying on strong economic strength and industrial strength, relying on the industrial and agricultural production system far from the battlefield, under the wartime economic stimulus of the US government, Americans have produced a steady stream of materials, coupled with the powerful transportation system in the United States and the world's largest logistics support system, which can continuously deliver canned meat to American soldiers at the forefront of the battlefield.