Food on the home front, food on the warfront: World War II and the American diet

Tunc, Tanfer Emin; Babic, Annessa Ann

doi:10.1080/07409710.2017.1311159

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“…Sacrifice for the civilian population was experienced through the curtailment of gasoline sales, automobile sales and food rationing policies (99,163,225,(231)(232)(233). In the USA, patriotism and the idea of shared sacrifice dominated the agricultural sector with propagandists relaying the 'dramatic story of sacrifice' of labourers working long working hours and farm women and children filling vacant spaces left by sons and brothers (234,235). With regards to the mobility system, the mass mobilisation of the auto industry for the war effort saw close collaboration between competitors, the sharing of innovation assisting in the refining and standardization of mass production techniques and a strong sense of solidarity among the labour force and management which cut across class divisions (46,217,223,236).…”

Section: The Second World War Energy Food and Transport And Mechanmentioning

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The Role of War in Deep Transitions: Exploring Mechanisms, Imprints and Rules in Sociotechnical Systems

Johnstone

McLeish

2020

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This paper explores in what ways the two world wars influenced the development of sociotechnical systems underpinning the culmination of the first deep transition. The role of war is an underexplored aspect in both the Techno-Economic Paradigms (TEP) approach and the Multi-level perspective (MLP) which form the two key conceptual building blocks of the Deep Transitions (DT) framework. Thus, we develop a conceptual approach tailored to this particular topic which integrates accounts of total war and mechanisms of war from historical studies and imprinting from organisational studies with the DT framework's attention towards rules and metarules. We explore in what ways the three sociotechnical systems of energy, food, and transport were affected by the emergence of new demand pressures and logistical challenges during conditions of total war; how war impacted the directionality of sociotechnical systems; the extent to which new national and international policy capacities emerged during wartime in the energy, food, and transport systems; and the extent to which these systems were influenced by cooperation and shared sacrifice under wartime conditions. We then explore what lasting changes were influenced by the two wars in the energy, food, and transport systems across the transatlantic zone. This paper seeks to open up a hitherto neglected area in analysis on sociotechnical transitions and we discuss the importance of further research that is attentive towards entanglements of warfare and the military particularly in the field of sustainability transitions.

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Section: The Second World War Energy Food and Transport And Mechanmentioning

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The Role of War in Deep Transitions: Exploring Mechanisms, Imprints and Rules in Sociotechnical Systems

Johnstone

McLeish

2020

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“…116 Although it has previously been argued that 'the egg was the most prized food item among American soldiers during the Second World War', this study has demonstrated that this was not necessarily the case among the USAAF service personnel in East Anglia. 117 The greater selection of food supplied by both the military and from care packages meant the choice of comfort food was much more individualised among the USAAF service personnel in East Anglia.…”

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‘I do feel good because my stomach is full of good hotcakes’: Comfort Food, Home and the USAAF in East Anglia during the Second World War

Gregory

Wayne²

2020

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This article analyses the important role that food played in providing 'comfort' to the service personnel of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) serving in East Anglia during the Second World War. Current theories on comfort food will be discussed before an examination of letters, diaries, and memoirs held by the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library (2ADML), Norwich, UK. It is clear that food played an important role in maintaining morale. Certain foods had the ability to evoke nostalgic thoughts of home. Not only did the food provide solace, it also reminded the troops of what they were fighting for. This article also demonstrates that USAAF personnel in East Anglia had a wide selection of foods from which they could gain comfort. I The link between the armed forces and food during the Second World War was a fundamental one: without access to sustenance, no military unit could hope to prevail against an enemy. To ensure troops were at their peak physical and mental performance, it was essential that they were supplied with a sufficient quantity of food and water. 1 But supply and quantity were not everything: combat effectiveness was also affected by the quality and nature of the food, with the commander of the British Army's 16th Infantry Brigade, Brigadier Bernard Fergusson, arguing that 'lack of food constitute[d] the single biggest assault upon

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The Taste of Defeat: Food, Peace and Power in US-Occupied Germany

O’Connell

2019

Food, Culture and Identity in Germany's Century of War

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Food on the home front, food on the warfront: World War II and the American diet

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

The Role of War in Deep Transitions: Exploring Mechanisms, Imprints and Rules in Sociotechnical Systems

The Role of War in Deep Transitions: Exploring Mechanisms, Imprints and Rules in Sociotechnical Systems

‘I do feel good because my stomach is full of good hotcakes’: Comfort Food, Home and the USAAF in East Anglia during the Second World War

The Taste of Defeat: Food, Peace and Power in US-Occupied Germany

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