Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (122 page)

96
Cited by Westbrook, ‘Fighting for the American family’, p. 204.

97
Aquila,
Home Front Soldier
, p. 63.

98
Cohen,
A Consumer’s Republic
, p. 55.

99
Ibid., p. 116.

100
Ibid., p. 127.

101
Bentley,
Eating for Victory
, p. 94; Crawford et al.,
Wartime Agriculture in Australia
, p. 147.

102
Milward,
War, Economy and Society
, p. 288; Tooze,
The Wages of Destruction
, p. 361.

103
Levenstein,
Paradox of Plenty
, pp. 94–5.

104
The papers of R. B. Buckle, Department of Documents, IWM, pp. 52–5.

105
Kennett,
G.I.
, p. 99.

106
Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, p. 73.

107
Ross and Romanus,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 485.

108
Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, p. 80.

109
Ibid., p. 81.

110
Collier, ‘Logistics’, pp. 5–6.

111
Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, p. 81.

112
Adapting Livestock Products to War Needs
, p. 14.

113
Levenstein,
Paradox of Plenty
, p. 90.

114
Wilson, ‘Who fought and why?’, p. 302.

115
Levenstein,
Paradox of Plenty
, p. 90.

116
Ross and Romanus,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 136.

117
Stauffer,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 67.

118
Levenstein,
Paradox of Plenty
, p. 91.

119
Cited by Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, pp. 289–90.

120
US War Department,
Handbook
, pp. 298–9, 537.

121
Merridale,
Ivan’s War
, p. 120.

122
William H. Bauer, Interview, 7 October 1994, Rutgers Oral History Archives, New Brunswick History Department,
history.rutgers.edu/Interviews
.

123
Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, p. 77.

124
Levine,
School Lunch Politics
, p. 69; Levenstein,
Paradox of Plenty
, p. 93.

125
Bentley,
Eating for Victory
, pp. 82–3.

126
Prendergast,
For God, Country and Coca-Cola
, p. 196.

127
Ibid., p. 197.

128
Ibid., pp. 512–13.

129
Mintz,
Tasting Food
, p. 27.

130
Prendergast,
For God, Country and Coca-Cola
, p. 203.

131
Mintz,
Tasting Food
, p. 27.

132
Prendergast,
For God, Country and Coca-Cola
, p. 206.

133
Mintz,
Tasting Food
, p. 28.

134
Prendergast,
For God, Country and Coca-Cola
, p. 194.

135
Ross and Romanus,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 485.

136
Risch,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 55.

137
Ibid., p. 196.

138
Ross and Romanus,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 131.

139
Risch,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 182.

140
Ross and Romanus,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 131.

141
Ibid.

142
Risch,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 187.

143
US War Department,
Handbook
, p. 299.

144
Richmond,
The Japanese Forces in New Guinea
, pp. 28–9, 35–6.

145
Ellis,
Sharp End of War
, p. 280.

146
Kennett,
G.I.
, p. 100.

147
Ellis,
The
Sharp End of War
, p. 288.

148
Ross and Romanus,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 132.

149
Ibid., pp. 485–6.

150
Ibid., p. 129.

151
Ibid., p. 133.

152
Ibid., p. 490.

153
Katarzyna Cwiertka, ‘Feeding the troops in the Pacific and the Korean War’, talk given to the East Asian Studies seminar, Cambridge, 10 November 2008.

154
Beaumont, ‘Australia’s war: Europe and the Middle East’, pp. 9, 47.

155
Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, pp. 14–15.

156
Mellor,
The Role of Science and Industry
, pp. 609–10.

157
Stauffer,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 48.

158
Freeman, ‘Australian universities at war’, p. 123.

159
Forty Facts about Australia’s Wartime Agriculture.

160
Mellor,
The Role of Science and Industry
, p. 573; Butlin and Schedvin,
War Economy
, pp. 196–7.

161
Mellor,
The Role of Science and Industry
, p. 582.

162
Ibid.

163
Ibid., p. 586.

164
Ibid., p. 587.

165
Ibid., p. 596.

166
Ibid., pp. 589–90.

167
Forty Facts about Australia’s Wartime Agriculture
, n.p.

168
Cramp, ‘Food – the first munition of war’, p. 76.

169
Cited by Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, p. 247.

170
Mellor,
The Role of Science and Industry
, p. 592.

171
Ibid., p. 598.

172
Ibid., pp. 596–7; Stauffer,
The Quartermaster Corps
, pp. 103–8.

173
Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, p. 247;
Forty Facts about Australia’s Wartime Agriculture
, n.p.

174
Mellor,
The Role of Science and Industry
, pp. 599–600; Crawford et al.,
Wartime Agriculture in Australia
, p. 153.

175
Cited by Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, p. 88.

176
Cramp, ‘Food – the first munition of war’, p. 74. Australians ate 17 lbs of pork while Americans ate 63 lbs.

177
Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, p. 15.

178
Laurence and Tiddy,
From Bully Beef
, p. 43.

179
Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, p. 288.

180
Cited in ibid., p. 87.

181
Ibid., p. 245.

182
Ibid., p. 156; Bosworth, ‘Eating for the nation’, p. 228.

183
Bosworth, ‘Eating for the nation’, pp. 231–2.

184
Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, p. 243.

185
Ibid., p. 258.

186
Houldsworth,
The Morning Side of the Hill
, p. 137.

187
Ibid., p. 170.

188
Ibid.

189
Ibid., p. 177.

190
Ibid., p. 175.

191
Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, p. 264.

192
‘Food requirements for the Allied fighting forces’, Dept. of Defence, ANA,
Series A816/1 File no: 42/301/397; ‘Food requirements of the Allied fighting forces and ration supply – United States Forces’, ANA, Series A5954/69 File no: 291/6.

193
Potts and Potts,
Yanks
, p. 287.

194
Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, p. 148.

195
War Office,
Record of
Ration Scales
, pp. 3–4, 11.

196
Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, pp. 148–9.

197
Stauffer,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 113.

198
Ibid., pp. 110–11.

199
Ibid., p. 110.

200
Sledge,
With the Old Breed
, p. 32.

201
Ibid.

202
Stauffer,
The Quartermaster Corps
, pp. 49–53, 96–7.

203
Ibid., p. 191.

204
Ibid., pp. 182–9.

205
Ibid., p. 192. Other causes of wastage were ‘losses at sea, pilferage, enemy action, operational movements, extra issues, and … errors in distribution’. Ross and Romanus,
The Quartermaster Corps
, p. 136.

206
Stauffer,
The Quartermaster Corps
, pp. 193, 196.

207
Ibid., pp. 194–5.

208
Ibid., p. 199.

209
Italics added. Hastings,
Nemesis
, pp. 56–7.

210
Cited by Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, pp. 67–8.

211
Cook and Cook,
Japan at War
, p. 280.

212
Harries and Harries,
Soldiers of the Sun
, p. 314.

213
McQuarrie,
Strategic Atolls
, p. 28.

214
Ibid., pp. 26–30.

215
Lindstrom and White, ‘War stories’, p. 4.

216
McQuarrie,
Strategic Atolls
, p. xiv.

217
Denoon,
The Cambridge History
, p. 312.

218
Kahn and Sexton, ‘The fresh and the canned’, p. 11.

219
McQuarrie,
Strategic Atolls
, p. 31.

220
Ibid., pp. 40–41.

221
Ibid., pp. 32–3.

222
Ibid., p. 35.

223
White et al.,
The Big Death
, p. 211.

224
Lindstrom and White, ‘War stories’, p. 10.

225
Kahn and Sexton, ‘The fresh and the canned’, p. 6.

226
Denoon,
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
, p. 315.

227
McQuarrie,
Strategic Atolls
, p. 145.

228
Ibid., p. 153.

229
Bindon, ‘Breadfruit’, p. 50.

230
Franco, ‘Samoan representations’, p. 375.

231
Ibid., p. 379.

232
Ibid., p. 386.

233
Ibid., p. 385.

234
Bindon, ‘Taro or rice’, p. 64.

235
Neubarth,
Dental Conditions
, p. 1.

236
Bindon, ‘Taro or rice’, p. 76.

237
Ibid., pp. 66–7.

238
Malcolm,
Diet and Nutrition
, n.p.

239
McQuarrie,
Conflict in Kiribati
, p. 149.

240
Nero, ‘Time of famine’, pp. 119, 122.

241
Ibid., p. 120.

242
Ibid., p. 129.

243
Ibid., pp. 129–30.

244
Ibid., pp. 132–3.

245
Counts, ‘Shadows of war’, p. 203.

246
Nero, ‘Time of famine’, p. 141.

247
Ibid., p. 132.

248
Stanner,
The South Seas
, p. 326.

249
Weeks, ‘The United States occupation’, p. 415.

250
Nero, ‘Time of famine’, p. 142.

251
Lindstrom and White, ‘War stories’, pp. 26–7; Franco, ‘Samoan representations’, pp. 373–4.

252
Stanner,
The South Seas
, p. 328.

253
Kahn and Sexton, ‘The fresh and the canned’, pp. 12–13.

254
Weeks, ‘The United States occupation’, p. 425.

255
Prendergast,
For God, Country and Coca-Cola
, pp. 208–9.

256
Kahn and Sexton, ‘The fresh and the canned’, p. 6.

257
Coyne,
The Effect of Urbanisation
, p. 18.