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I visited Battleship Cove some years back. They described how beloved ice cream was to the Navy men in WWII and mentioned not only the dedicated supply ship, but how when one ship was going down, an exiting sailor first went the galley to fill up his hat with ice cream before abandoning ship.
Time-Life - your source - says 1,500 gallons per hour, but those are recent sources. Publications from 1945 say things like "The machine can make 500 gallons of ice cream a day —with storage space for 1500 gallons more." and "a special unit which turns out 10 gallons of ice cream every seven minutes". There is even a picture of one of the 125 hp refrigeration engines .
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If it were a real-time in-world reunion then 40 years after the end of the Korean War in 1953 is 1993 - dawn of the world-wide web and just 7 years after we last saw Trapper John, MD, working at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. Then again, we know time runs funny in that world, where the 4077th was in Korea for more than three times the length of the actual war.
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Something to add for my long fantasized Norwegian road trip to the tidal currents of Saltstraumen and then ferry over to Lofoten on the way up to the Arctic Circle. Some day .....
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I don't come to Neatorama to read about the dating history of a war criminal, and if I do, I prefer the obit include mention of the several million people estimated killed due to his actions, and not just the American deaths.
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Ever since learning there's only 90 seconds to evacuate so everyone must leave their luggage behind, when the plane is landing I make sure I have my wallet/passport/phone, and that my shoes are on.
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I think I figured it out! The brothers Heinz and Lutz Heck started a breeding program to make cattle which looked like aurochs. Göring was taken with the idea, as it aligned with his views on a historic past, and hunting large beasts, and supported the project. The Polish Wikipedia entry says (via Firefox's translator): "The breed of cattle resembling the turn was first placed in the Prussian forest reserve Rominsten, and in 1942, the release was released in the Białowieża Forest." Which is where Simona Kossak was.
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