Aircrew Survival Rations

[German_EPA]

what is a silver can ration worth? there could be a chance but i am not sure with the price. what do you think?
i want - what do i say - NEED such a ration for my collection. btw... 2 of course

[norge]

i paid about 10 dollars for 2 cans and than another 10 for shipping to norway.
make shure that you find bouth types of silver cans,there are 2 different types
se my picture.

cheers ken

[German_EPA]

good to know - thanks!

[norge]

no problem

ken

[Treesuit]

German_Epa,

Hi, I have some of those cans from a collector in my area. He has the cans that have and do not have the wax paper cardboard outer sleeve. He sells them for $5.00 a piece. Good selection.

[German_EPA]

pm on the way

[donaldjcheek]

My father-in-law once told me that when he was a B-52 tail gunner, their rations often included cans of pemmican something about raisins and mystery meat held together with grease just does not appeal to me.

The orginal American Indian (or is it Native American this month?) pemmican consisted of dried meat (usually buffalo) pounded into a powder and mixed with crushed berries & crushed nuts, then bound together with rendered fat.

The military version (Survival Pemmican) from the 1930's - 50's was made of finely minced dehydrated apples & raisins mixed with crushed nuts & rendered fat.

[Bypah]

Here In Oklahoma I have friends that still make it the traditional way with shredded dried buffalo meat mixed with the tallow and fat with nuts and fruits. Is good but you have to have and adquired taste for it....

About the survival rations ( I call them tincans) i have some from the 90's with the fliptop. I opened one the other day and I have been eating those bars foe a couple of days now. The oatmeal bars and the granola bars tae great for a 20 year old ration...

[biscuits brown]

Hi rt

Is this what you were thinking of?

Food packet Surivival abandon aircraft 1962

FPAA contents 1962

1983 description of the food packet

Notice it mentions its SAC use, and the use of pemmican. i think thats SAC official survival ration, 50s - early 60s.

[rationtin440]

Yes biscuits, that looks identical to what I recall my father-in-law showing me, thanks! If you could find any info, it would be cool to see what Victor and Vulcan crews had as well. During my years of military service, I recall seeing a NATO-made training film about RAF Vulcan crews getting sick from food poisoning after eating flight rations---it was purely training, Soviets hitting an RAF base with bio-warfare in the food chain--anyway, the flight crew were eating some kind of mystery meat sandwiches and had tins of fruit it looked like.