Description

This is a remarkably complete Vietnam-era U.S. Military C-Ration, officially designated Meal, Combat, Individual - Pork, Sliced and Cooked, B-1A Unit, presented in its original olive drab cardboard outer box with period-correct stenciled lettering. The B-1A Unit cans are present and intact alongside a B-2 Unit can, a Pound Cake tin (2.2 oz, American Bread Company, Nashville, TN), a Pineapple Jam tin (1.5 oz, Baumer Foods Inc., New Orleans, LA), and a Fortified Peanut Butter tin (1.5 oz, Stevens Industries / Cinderella Foods Division, Dawson, GA 31742). The accessory packet is included and still lists its full contents on the wrapper: Cigarettes, Matches, Chewing Gum, Toilet Paper, Instant Coffee, Cream Substitute, Sugar, and Salt - a genuine time capsule of what American GIs carried in the field. Rounding out this exceptional lot is a Cocoa Beverage Powder packet, Type I, Fortified Class 1 (1.5 oz, Instant Foods of California, Inc., 501 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940), complete with original preparation instructions. An extraordinary find for military historians, collectors, and Vietnam War enthusiasts - rarely does a C-Ration surface this complete and identifiable.

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