WW II beer runs

[corkybstewart]

http://instapinch.com/?p=2094
They figured out how to fly kegs of beer into France for the troops after D-day. We can't have thirsty, sober troops!!

 

[Hammy71]

Sweet.

 

[TheCatman]

I approve

 

[rodwha]

Cool!!!

 

[Teromous]

Awesome story and pictures!!

 

[Jaysus]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

 

[patto1ro]

The British army also had a mobile brewery on the back of a truck in the Burmese jungle. Evidently the beer had a short shelf-life.

They also had a custom-built ship brewery.

 

[Calichusetts]

Beer was safer than water during the war and through most of history for that matter

 

[hoppyih]

That's so sweet, too bad most of the stuff prolly went to REMF's.
Oh! and hey sure enough that's why the Pilgram's landed on Plymouth Rock, ran out of beer on the voyage.
Lucky us. LOL
H

 

[Calichusetts]

That's so sweet, too bad most of the stuff prolly went to REMF's.
Oh! and hey sure enough that's why the Pilgram's landed on Plymouth Rock, ran out of beer on the voyage.
Lucky us. LOL
H

Some of the first entries from William Bradford's journal when he reached America were about making beer...

One of them is on our local breweries bottles, Mayflower:

http://mayflowerbrewing.com/

 

[aubiecat]

Can't delete

 

[aubiecat]

I just got through reading the book "Woodbine Red Leader" about George Loving, a WWII P-51 pilot. His air group was being temporarily moved to a staging base 20 miles away for the invasion of southern France, Operation Dragoon. He got the bright idea of putting a few cans of beer in the ammo boxes in the wings of his P-51 so they would get cold from his fight through altitude. Only problem was they only got up to 5000' so the beer was still warm. He didn't care because he and with wing mates, him and 3 other pilots, were the only ones out of the whole group that had beer that day. Of course everyone else was jealous.

 

[BradleyBrew]

Nothing like some good old casked ordinance.

 

[DoubleAught]

Nice! Much different today, you almost get in trouble for even saying the word "beer"! General order #1 is to not be messed with