Long before grocery inflation or hoarding of toilet paper, there was a different kind of issue with the food supply: lack of volume. Throughout World War II, the U.S. saw severe shortages of items ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. This cover for a "War Ration Book Two" made out to George Michael Myers, age 2, at his residence in Laurel, MS, no longer contains pages. This is part of a collection of ...

Following Japan’s bombing of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and the United States’ resulting entry into the second World War, American at home knew there would ...

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 ...

A focus on certain types of power foods helped the nation survive a blockade. A British shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a homemaker's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon during ...