Ice Cream and the U.S. W.W.2 Navy

[Rick]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiyo8D0nH70

Interesting

[Ivanhoe]

From http://www.photodave.net/battleships/stewart/index.htm;

Aboard the USS Stewart (DE-238), now a museum ship at Galveston TX;

 

 

 

 

[bfng3569]

what about the strawberries.....

 

[shep854]

It gets even better for we decadent Americans...Drach weighs in--with a Rum Ration, no less:

 

Edited July 19, 2024 by shep854

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/october/heapin-helpin-gedunk

[Ssnake]

Mentioned in an anecdote of Adm. Fluckey's Thunder Below, how junior officers "found" and ice cream machine while laid up for retrofits in Pearl, and in classic kids' tactic, surprised him with it aleady being mounted and big puppy eyes, "can we keep it? Please?"