C rations

Wartime museums display the bland hardtack that sustained Civil War fighters, and the canned meats, breads and fruit of World War II, known as C rations.

He supplemented his soup and rice with canned C rations he’d brought with him: familiar American food like beans and franks, even if he had to eat it cold from the can.

The Marines cut the rope from his neck, and gave him water and all the C rations he could eat.

After a meal of C rations, they’d turn in, still wearing their combat clothes and boots.

One of the favorite things that we salvaged were the supply packages that were the Japanese equivalent of our cans of C- rations.