Crossing the English Channel aboard a Coast Guard "Elsie" (or LCI), American soldiers catch their K rations and celery soup from the top of a 20 mm ready box. Ahead lies the coast of France, but for the moment chow is the important thing. You can't fight on a hollow stomach. June 6, 1944

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Keywords: -day, -rations, .., american, army, food, france, germans, invasion, rations, soldiers