12 Rugged Foods Korean War Soldiers ACTUALLY Ate to Stay Alive

Korean War food, Korean War rations, US Army C-Rations It's minus thirty degrees. Somewhere near a frozen reservoir in North Korea. A man kneels in a foxhole he had to blast out of the ground, because the earth itself had frozen solid. He's holding a can. He can't open it. Not because he's too weak. Because the can is frozen into a solid block of ice, and there's no fire he's allowed to light. A fire means smoke. Smoke means the enemy finds you. So he tucks the can inside his jacket, against his own body, and waits. That's dinner. That's also breakfast, if it thaws in time. Around him, men are doing the same thing — hugging cans of stew like they're keeping something alive. In a way, they are. In today's video, we look at 12 Rugged Foods Korean War Soldiers ACTUALLY Ate to Stay Alive … Keep watching to see Korean War food, Korean War rations, US Army C-Rations. Also check out: https://youtu.be/8UtJQPBHjkM #foodhistory #tastinghistory #koreanwar