Garron, you should have been around Castlemartin near Pembroke (in South West Wales) during the early 1990's. There used to be a bunch of German soldiers who used drive Leopard tanks around the Welsh countryside based there (from the 1960's to the mid 1990's). Just afer the reunification of Germany ...

Link to BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4344168.stm

I also heard on the news that a German plane full of EPAs had difficulty getting permission to land in the US. They must have landed somewhere in the end, but I don't know if the EPAs got to their intended destination.

From British forum:

http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/vie ... 22828.html

I apologise if this has been posted before:


http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/vi ... hp?t=54705

http://www.rationman.blogspot.com/

Unfortunately I think he's removed the photos now, but theres still some info on other rations.

I thought you might be interested this thread about Russian rations:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/vi ... hp?t=51927

More info about wayfayrer (Westlers) can be found here:

http://www.wayfayrer.co.uk/index.asp

Their new 'Hot food kits' contain the Canadian MRE heaters - I guess you might see them in the British issue ration boxes soon.

That looks like them - sort off a supersized US one. Kman, I've emailed you some photos of the heaters (sorry I can't post them on the forum as I've no webspace). From my point of view they are great as they are big enough to fit the British army ration pouches. The bad news is that Ive only got two...

The manufacturer seems to be ''Hot Pack.''

It's really late here in the UK, so I'll post a couple of pictures tomorrow.

Many thanks.