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Miscellaneous Ration items

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Halazone tablet bottle with label €5

The price is for one bottle with adhesive label. The bottles are empty.

There are two types of bottles available: square and round. Specify which type you want.

The square bottle comes with a plastic cap and a 3-panel label. The round bottle has an aluminum cap and a wrap around label.

Label for modern water purification tablet bottles (2x) €1

Water purification tablets in bottles are for sale on the market (shown in the picture below is the Potable Aqua brand) and for these bottles I have white adhesive labels. This label follows the modern instructions: the use of one tablet instead of two tablets for purifying a quart of water water.
You get two labels.

From left to right: square bottles with 3-panel label, round bottles with wrap around labels, commercial water purification tablets with white label.

Brach’s Caramel carton €2,50

With the late war “morale” K Rations one package of caramels was included in the Dinner unit. These still could be the dull brown packaging or the new colorful packaging used by Brach’s. It appears that the Army was becoming less concerned with packagings not being conspicuous but being more attractive to the GI.
Thus the old kraft paper packaging for the caramels gave way for a new one. This is the cutest carton that can be found in a ration by far!

This design is reproduced in collaboration with Frontline Rations and is exclusive to us.


5 pieces of hard caramel candy (here soft fudge is used) will fit the carton.

Mars bar wrapper €2

Milky Way bar wrapper €2


The Mars bars were introduced in the summer of 1944 with the 10-in-1 Ration and were the confection component of the Partial Dinner Unit in menu #2 and sometimes as a snack with the suppers in other menus.


The Milky Way bars were introduced in the summer of 1944 with the 10-in-1 Ration and were sometimes the snack with the suppers in some menus. As of October 1944 the Milky Way bar was included in the Dinner unit of the K Ration.


Both types of candy bar is generally referred to as the Caramel Nougat bar.


The words Torrid Zone refers to the fact that these bars have a higher melting point and are suitable for use in tropical climates and its use is exclusive to field rations.


This is a three-color print on semi-transparent glassine paper. One of the colors used is white: as part of the star and the words Torrid Zone. The commercial wrappers (not used in rations) used yellow instead of white and did not have the words Torrid Zone.

These designs are reproduced in collaboration with Frontline Rations and are exclusive to us.

The size of the candy bar is roughly the same as the other confections used with the K Rations and should be about 3 1/8 to 3 1/4 inch long (approx 8 cm). The wrappers are approximately 5 by 7 inch (13 x 18 cm).

With the early production the wrapper is not sealed but placed loosely around the bar and the ends are then folded underneath. This is obviously the easiest method of packaging. Later production were heat sealed.

For Dutch customers there is a perfect candy bar available at one of the larger supermarkets (last pic).

Hershey’s Tropical Chocolate bar wrapper, 1-oz. or 2-oz. €1

This sweet chocolate bar was developed by Hershey for specific use in tropical climates.

Although not used in any field ration, the 1-oz. bar was available at the PX stores. The 2-oz. bars were part of several USAAF survival ration kits.

This is a two-color printing on thin white paper with a PE backing, making them perfect to carry them around in your pocket without worrying that the chocolate stains your uniform.

Cigarette packs, 10-in-1 Ration €2

There are three brands of cigarette cartons available: Old Gold, Chesterfield and Lucky Strike.

The Old Gold and Chesterfield packs have colorful commercial designs with an extra shiny gold print. The Lucky Strike is the special dull military ration packaging. The Old Gold and Chesterfield were used throughout the production of the 10-in-1 Rations, the use of the Luckies started the summer of 1944.

These cartons will hold 10 cigarettes each and were exclusive to the 10-in-1 Ration. They are of the sleeve-and-tray construction.

With each carton comes a sheet of adhesive tax labels. There's a choice of 1st generation (August 1943 through March 1944) or 2nd generation (April through August 1944). Also included on each sheet is a generic tax label.

Can Opener with Envelope €3

This can opener was officially known to the Army as Opener, Can, Small, Individual and was developed in 1942 for use with the 5-in-1 Ration.

The can opener came in a small square or rectangular (depending on the manufacturer) kraft brown envelope. Instructions for use were printed on the front of the envelope. Three lines of instruction were used during the war. An extra line was added post war.


This envelope with the little handy can opener was included in the 10-in-1 Ration's First Half boxes and in one of the eight Accessory Packets that were inserted in a case of C Rations.

The can opener was never included in the K Ration!


These can openers are of modern manufacture (Shelby Co.) and are inserted into a reproduction envelope. The construction of the envelope is based on an original envelope, although other constructions were used too.

Originally the flap was sealed but I leave that to you.

Fuel Tablet 'Size A' Hot Box €1,50

Fuel Tablet '3 oz.' Hot Box €1,50

One complaint often voiced about the rations was that there were no easy means of heating the rations. Folowing these complaints a small expandable heating unit was developed, called Hot Box, that could be broken in three smaller blocks. One-third was large enough to heat a can of the C Ration's M-unit or a canteen cup with soluble coffee. This unit is referred to as "Size A". Strangely, no "Size B" was ever produced.
A large heating unit of 3 ounces was also developed for heating five meals from the 5-in-1 or 10-in-1 Rations.
In these cardboard boxes was a block of wax and sawdust mixture. The block for the "Size A" came with serrations so a third could be broken off easily along the perforated lines. The whole unit was wax coated for waterproofing.
None of these fuel tablets were ever included in rations but were issued separately in the field. These became available starting spring 1944.
Only the flat cardboard box is for sale. You can fill them with modern fuel tablets or BBQ starter blocks. After closing the unit should be coated with paraffin wax.

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