Before and after World War II, the industrial productivity was at the forefront of the world, the United States, natural energy continued to equip all kinds of materials in the army, so that even the British army, which could enjoy black tea and pan meat between battles, could only rely on jealous eyes to secretly swallow saliva after seeing the food standards of the US army.
Even in the icy Battlefield of Korea, the delicate stomach that the US military has cultivated for many years has not been wronged by a little bit under the strong and timely logistics supply. According to records, in order to ensure the food standards of frontline soldiers, in addition to local materials, the US military also spent a huge price to build a base in Japan, collecting fresh ingredients from various farms or farms in Japan every day, and was loaded by Japan to be shipped through South Korea and finally to the Korean battlefield to ensure the three meals a day for US soldiers.
With regard to field rations, the most common U.S. military ration on the Korean battlefield is a three-person C-ration package, which provides each soldier with 4,350 calories per day, including biscuits, lunch meat, beans, dehydrated vegetables, fruit candy, coffee powder, juice, chewing gum, and even additional items such as cigarettes, matches, sewing kits, and razor blades. Thick military uniforms and coats, duck down bags, cold hats, sweaters, coats, woolen socks, leather boots, etc. used to protect against the cold, as well as cotton tents, improvised stoves and fuel, are all available.
On December 6, 1950, when the soldiers of the 116th Division of the 39th Army, who had almost run out of ammunition and had not eaten a good meal and slept for several days and nights, invaded Pyongyang, the 2nd Battalion of the 346th Regiment took the lead in discovering a mountain of military supplies on the south bank of the Datong River, but it was bubbling with flames.
After the fire weakened slightly, the veteran Jiang Daoyun's scorched meat aroma and the bursting sound of the military cans exploded, found the accumulation point of the military cans, the ecstatic soldiers risked burns, one person and one box emergency rescued many boxes of cans, the scene opened a look, beef, pork, chicken, lunch meat, beans, fruits and even egg powder Coke powder shook the eyes of the soldiers, the most important thing is that these cans in addition to the burnt surface of the box, open a taste has not changed at all.
In the next three days, the second battalion of the 346th Regiment alone snatched more than 280 boxes of canned goods in the fire, not to mention the entire 116th Division, and even the nearby Korean people also picked up a lot of materials that had not yet been completely burned. Legend has it that for about seven consecutive days, a wide variety of American canned food with different tastes appeared in three meals a day, and many soldiers of the 116th Division and even the entire 39th Army ate too much canned meat because they had indigestion and became sick in the health team.
After the war, according to the public archives of the US military, it was learned that the materials on the south bank of the Datong River were strategic reserves for the US military to be airlifted from Japanese bases for transit, and except for military uniforms, tents, shoes and socks, half of them were all military field food. When the US military was defeated, it used napalm bombs to ignite this pile of supplies that were too late to take away, but the well-treated US army could not imagine that the volunteer soldiers would risk their lives to rescue the supplies in the fire, and at the same time, they would not think that the materials that smoked and burned black paint would be regarded as treasures.