Posted by JerryS on November 10, 2014 at 16:59:45 from (98.80.122.166):
In Reply to: traces of the farmer posted by Larry@stinescorner on November 10, 2014 at 15:27:45:
Maybe I should call this response/comment "Traces of the Army". Larry, this reminds me of when I was a kid (early 50s)and my uncle and I would walk across his land and he would point out the places where thousands of beer cans were buried. He would find a circular depression (they weren't hard to find, there were dozens of them) and dig down about six inches where he would run into a cache of beer cans.
He said that these were remnants of the Louisiana Maneuvers that occurred all over north and central Louisiana during 1940-41. The Red army and the Blue army, comprising a total of about 400,000 soldiers and featuring such military lightweights as Bradley, Eisenhower, Clark and Patton, staged mock warfare that was instrumental in answering questions about the readiness of U.S. forces to participate in a war that everyone knew was coming.
A large contingent of soldiers (I know no details about how many, etc., because as a stupid kid it never occurred to me to ask) encamped on my uncle's land for a time. When they moved out, they left little but some entrenchments and the buried beer cans. For years I had a dummy gas mask that had been left behind, but it disappeared at some point.
I know nothing about the evolution of beer cans, but these were steel with a funnel top like a brake fluid can.. They may have been made especially for the military. It's interesting that beer was considered part of their rations.
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