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Opening 80-year-old WWII US Army C-ration can with original chocolate, coffee, biscuits, and jam inside

This fascinating video shows an original World War II–era US Army C-Ration can from the 1940s being opened today, in 2026.
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How chocolate became one of the US military's most important WWII rations

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 ...