The Women's Army Corps was founded in 1942 to fill non-combat posi...  ...unnecessary, but fed the new recruits a standard army ration of nearly 4,000 calories a day. That led t...  ...es. Read about the rough beginning of the Women's Army Corps at Atlas Obscura.

Civil War soldiers endured a lot of horrors: fight...  ...edical care, primitive living conditions, and the food . The food was awful, being limited to what a soldier could...  ...t, the lengths Confederate soldiers had to go for food contributed to their defeat at the Battle of...