Who many times did a soldier eat in world war 2?

Answer 1

The frequency of meals varied a great deal.

• Men in the army in Canada could expect regular meals considered wholesome for the time subject to the kinds of rationing imposed on the civilian population.
• Men in the army in Great Britain in camp would have had regular, sparser meals owing to the difficulties of getting food to Great Britain over the North Atlantic against enemy submarines.
• Men on active service in camp who were not actually fighting could have irregular meals whose quality would depend a great deal on what could be found locally. Men actively engaged in fighting could often go for days without substantial meals. Staple parts of a soldier's diet were tinned corned beef, hard-tack biscuits and dehydrated tea.
• Many of the Allied men that had been prisoners-of-war in eastern Europe starved to death when they were force-marched hundreds of miles back towards Western Europe. They ate grass, rotten vegetables, whatever they could find, when they fount it. Prior to that they had survived largely because their prison diets were supplemented with Red Cross packages.
• Men who were imprisoned by the Japanese in Asia worked up to about 18 hours a day on a single meal per day mainly of rice.