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Old 03-14-2024, 11:26 AM
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Sitting in the mud in the middle of the night, you don't really care.
Dad used to talk about how they would heat their “C” rats when the cooks at his battery couldn’t light the field stoves when they were under fire. They (the gun crews) would wait until they received a “cease fire” command, then they would place their rations on the VERY hot barrels of their 105mm howitzers.

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