American airman trades K rations for spaghetti dinners!

>Lieutenant Shostack had flown 2,500 cases of K rations in his B-24 to Cerignola, and had discovered that nobody wanted it. So he put the cases into his tent and whenever he could he would take ten boxes of them into town, go to what passed for a restaurant, “and trade them for an Italian spaghetti dinner.” The spaghetti sauce had no meat in it “but the Italians had great tomato sauce and a bottle of cheap wine to go with the meal.” _________________________ **Source:** Ambrose, Stephen E. “Cerignola, Italy.” *The Wild Blue: The Crews of the B-24*. Simon & Schuster, 2002. 136-37. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Shostack interview, Eisenhower Center. ___________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon]( https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**