Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers share chocolate, tobacco, chewing gum and more in August 1944. (Roger Viollet via Getty Images/Canva) In the early ...

When the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941, virtually every American became part of the war effort in some way. More than 16 million Americans served in the military, millions of civilians ...

Sunshine Coast resident Keith Upward was born in 1939 just after the outbreak of WWII and grew up believing rationing was just part of everyday life. JUNE 1942: Civilians queue for the issue of ration ...

In the early American military, specifically the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, food, logistics, medicine and morale were inseparable. Chocolate and cocoa fit that world neatly. They ...