#17 Women line up outside a butcher shop to buy meat in North Cheam, Surrey, 1942.

#17 Women line up outside a butcher shop to buy meat in North Cheam, Surrey, 1942.

Rationing in Britain: How Food and Other Supplies Were Controlled and Affected Daily Life from 1939 to 1954

#17 Women line up outside a butcher shop to buy meat in North Cheam, Surrey, 1942.

WWII

Related posts:

#6 A large sign reading “I am an American” placed in the window of a store, Oakland, California, 19…

#19 Air Crew members are training on long range equipment at Roswell Field for the gigantic atomic …

#143 Women and baby seen here leaving the city for the country side to avoid the nightly bombing. S…

#20 Coast Guardsman Charles R. Roth, leads the singing of hymns on an LST headed for Iwo Jima, the …

#3 On April 29, 1945, the approximately 5,000 prisoners at the Murnau POW camp were liberated by Am…

#27 Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi and friends seated around a table playing bridge.

#67 A World War II color poster encourages national war security.

#15 Lyudmila Pavlichenko posing for a photo in Washington, District of Columbia, September 1942

#19 American soldier eating his dinner atop ammunition stockpiled for the impending D-Day invasion …