Thanks Jim!!! I will send ASAP.

Terry

here's food for thought that I bet you'll never see a picture of.
* somebody in country was taking standard twenty round magazines , and cutting them up. Then welding them together and making a magazine that held a little over thirty rounds! I saw a couple dozen, and they were strait instead of being curved.
gary

That's a cool little detail!!!

Terry

Terry, great build, looks really great. Slight problem, the c-ration cartons are not Vietnam era, look to be WWII.

WalleyV

Thanks Walley!!! They are war surplus

Terry

WWII & Korean era rations were usually K-rations. Early C-rations came out late in the Korean war (these were the ones with the ham & lima beans in them). Later they came out with a revised menu that deleted the ham & lima beans with something else. I saw early C-rats as late as the fall of 1968, but most of the time it was the late stuff. The big difference in the cartons was the strapping. Early C-rats came with a wire wrapped box, and later stuff came with a nylon band wrapped around them. Normally the wire banding was cut off before ever being delivered.
gary

I beg to differ with you. C-rations were most definitely used in WWII, and Vietnam rations were packed 12 to a case not 10 as shown on these cartons. The meals varied through the Nam years, but the cartons were the same.