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14 Dec 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Canteen Xmas fare display – Rice flour, rice noodles, Kong So cakes, sweet biscuits, bottled syrup & boiled sweets

14 Dec 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Cold, overcast, NE wind.

Cleaning bricks.

Lorry in 3pm with wood. 

North’s notes contain plenty statistics re US forces in Pacific. 23 bttleships, 3 ½ million men  many other figures. US forces advance on Western Front & Russians enter Budapest. Nimitz to shift H.Qs. to Guam. 

Xmas “fare” on view in Canteen window.

  • ½ bttle Syrup(8-75)(6oz).
  • ½ lb rice flour(10-00)
  • ¼ lb Sweet biscuits or Kung [?] So cakes(14-00)
  • ½ lb Noodles(13-45)
  • Sweets (for children only) ¼ lb(11-75)