Oficers liquor rations in ww 2

[Walt's Daughter]

Okay going to post some interesting tidbits here. Though the first one is not related to officers, it is related to the nursing corps. This excerpt is from

 

http://history.fcgov.com/local_history/top...II/hist3b34.htm

 

After about a year in England, in May of 1945, her unit was moved to France. She remembers the beauty of Normandy where the roads were lined with tall, slim trees and the fields held acres of red poppies. She would not, however, see Paris, except from the inside of the train station, that they were not allowed to leave. In France, their hospital was in a huge grim stone building once occupied by the Germans, in or near Verdun, but the nurses got a generous liquor ration of five bottles a month, including the best champagne!