Is there this type of american ration?

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Post by mreheater72 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:15 am

mettnoon wrote:But can anyone post the picture of M-3 Unit white bread?
Hi guys,

in this context I want to show one of my eldest rations of my collection, a B3-Unit C-Rat from 1961:

Card box
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Overview
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B3-Unit Cookies
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B3-Unit Cookies stamped January 1961
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Chicken Boned
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White Bread stamped 7 11 60
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White Bread contents
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Accessory Packet with cigarettes
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Card box insertion
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White Bread stamped 8 11 60, not component of the ration
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So long mreheater72
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Post by kman » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:32 am

Great pics, mreheater72. So that white bread wasn't in that MCI?
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Post by Richard w. » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:42 am

Looks like the one stamped 7-11-60 was in the C-Rat.

The other one (8-11-60) is from somewhere else.
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Post by kman » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:47 am

Ah, got it - didn't notice the dates - thanks, Richard w.!
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Post by mreheater72 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:42 pm

Sorry for confusion! The second "White Bread" is component of another ration!
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Post by Lifesaver » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:09 pm

Great photos. I ate some old c-rats when I went threough basic. Many of them still had cigarettes in them. (This was immediately after Nam.) I never got any with white bread in them, though. It looks like the meal choice was stamped on the box as opposed to being printed on it like the ones we had.
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Post by mettnoon » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:35 pm

Thanks for the pictures!!
:D :D :D
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c rat

Post by norge » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:26 pm

it looks just factory fresh :D
nice pictures, by the way talked to a old airforce dude
and he told me they had the white bread in the old c rats in the mid 50s.
he ment they had smal and big cans with the bread...
cheers norge
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Whitw Bread

Post by madcapmagician » Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:13 pm

Sent him a pm about this auction on ebay. Thought it might help him out :D

http://cgi.ebay.com/Military-ARMY-Vinta ... dZViewItem
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Post by mettnoon » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:16 am

Thanks a million! Madcapmagician!
You really save my life.
:D :D :D :D :D

And for your information, I'm not a guy. :lol:
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