Yes. All countries involved in WW2 (and all occupied territories) had rationing and ration books. The only alternative to rationing by coupons would have been rationing by price. In most cases, this would have sent the prices of essentials sky high.
Ration books looked like little notebooks but inside them they're like little letter stamps
A fixed allowance of food in WW2 was called a ration. Every soldier had their specific ration of food each day.
yellow, red, green, blue.
every person living at home ie wasn't a soldier etc (as far as i know) had a ration book. children under 5, pregnant women and nursing mothers had green books, children between 5-16 had a blue book and everyone elses was buff coloured
who invented the ration books
Ration books is a plural noun. The singular is ration book.
hard because they had the ration
In Britain ration books where brought out in January 8th, 1940 and were taken out of use in 1954.
Ration Tabs
Yes. All countries involved in WW2 (and all occupied territories) had rationing and ration books. The only alternative to rationing by coupons would have been rationing by price. In most cases, this would have sent the prices of essentials sky high.
Really everything was rationed in WW2.
Ration books looked like little notebooks but inside them they're like little letter stamps
No, soldiers on active duty did not require ration books, the service provided for their needs.
Ration books were issued by the US government to allow everyone to have the same chance to get goods as everyone else. There is no exact number on how many ration books were issued but over 8000 ration offices were opened to control the rationing.
Yes, what about them!
called ration books or ration coupons.