The K-ration wasn’t intended for long-term use, but that’s what happened when the Army started fighting the enemy. To make matters worse, eating the same thing over and over gets old pretty fast.

The remains of a World War II airman from Michigan have been identified nearly 80 years after he was killed in a bombing raid over Romania. Second Lieutenant Peter A. Timpo, 24, of Ecorse, was a ...

The K ration was born. During World War II he also served as a special assistant to the secretary of war. Afterward, Keys conducted one of his most famous studies, the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.

The Airmen when they ... WW2 People's War Homepage ... They stayed for about 6 months with us.Mary was 14 years old and Sheila was 9.My Mother and Grandmother received extra rations to look ...

World War II airmen fly again in storied B-29 bomber. October 24, 2014 / 4:24 PM EDT / AP BATON ROUGE, La.-- The bomber best known for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan also flew countless ...

A missing World War II airman from San Francisco whose remains were found more than a decade ago will finally be laid to rest Thursday. Army Air Force Sgt. Charles A. Gardner’s remains will be ...

Incredible story of how six hero WW2 airmen survived 11 days at sea in a dinghy by using their underwear ... The plane sank so quickly the survivors had no time to retrieve any rations or ...

WASHINGTON – Ancel Keys, a University of Minnesota public health scientist who invented the K rations consumed by millions of soldiers in World War II, discovered that saturated fat was a major ...

UNDISCLOSED LOCATION - Staff Sgt. Rachael Marzette is the noncommissioned officer in charge of public health at the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, undisclosed location, Southwest Asia. Some of her ...

Soldiers would eat K-rations while in combat zones or while waiting for the kitchen to be brought in for hot food. "There was a unit for breakfast, lunch and dinner," Lynch said of the K-rations.

Known as K-Rations and Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), the military surplus dinners have become hot collector’s items, selling on eBay for anywhere from $5 to more than $100, depending on their vintage.