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C Rats vs K Rats
HeavyArty
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Posted: Monday, November 24, 2003 - 06:19 AM UTC
The Tamiya M26 comes with 2 wooden K ration boxes. Does anyone know if these were still used in Korean war or had we switched exclusively to cardboard C ration cases by then? K ration boxes look good with 3 decals for each. I'm doing Korean USMC version.
Hollowpoint
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Posted: Monday, November 24, 2003 - 05:22 PM UTC
My educated gues would be, Yes, they probably had plenty of WWII-era K-Rations in Korea.

Here's an interesting site on K-Rations, with lots of other interesting stuff linked. http://www.usarmymodels.com/ARTICLES/Rations/krations.html

My other ration site appears to be down or gone.
kglack43
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Posted: Monday, November 24, 2003 - 05:45 PM UTC
Hollowpoint...that site...everything you could EVER want to know about rations. Stumbled across it a couple months ago.










HeavyArty
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Posted: Monday, November 24, 2003 - 06:11 PM UTC
Hollowpoint,
Thanks for the info. I will use both the K rat crates and Hudson and Allen C rat boxes on the M26. I'll post photos soon.
gunnerk19
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Posted: Monday, November 24, 2003 - 07:04 PM UTC
OK, I may be getting loopy, but I think I just posted about this very same subject on FSM....
HeavyArty
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Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 03:02 AM UTC
GunnerK19,
You are correct, I posted in both places to get all the imput I could. Thanks for the response there as well.
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