New rations and bike for Airborne

Title (Dublin Core): New rations and bike for Airborne
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Transport; en Other
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Title: Paratroops Ride on Bicycles and Eat Compact Rations
extracted text (Extract Text): THE sight of soldiers descending from
the skies in parachutes is startling enough
to most Americans, but they would be
even more surprised to see these para-
troops mount bicycles which floated down
with them and ride away. The Marine
Corps has been equipping its paratroops
with bicycles that fold up.

Even the young paratrooper may be
surprised when confronted by the new
‘“para-rations” put up by the Quarter-
master Corps of the Army. Nevertheless,
the compact new battle rations (32.86
ounces by weight) contain 3,726 calories,
or enough for three meals. Each pack
contains pemmican and graham biscuits,
malted milk tablets, soluble coffee, sugar,
canned meats, and chewing gum.
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1942-02
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 140, n. 2, 1942
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 123
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google Digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Roberto Meneghetti; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): United States of America