Al: Yes, I well remember the ration stamps for almost everything prior to enlisting inWW 2. I also remember os "farm boys" being allowed to get a small rationed allotment of .22 cartridges along with shotgun shells for "pest and varmint control" along with this.
Also remember turning in fat drippings to get more meat stamps in the local butcher
shop to buy meat. When comming home for a "delay in route of 10 days" prior to being
sent overseas being given gas coupons from the local authoriies of rationing for 10 gals.
of gasoline which the local gas station didnt take and just filled the tank instead. This
was a godsend to my mother as I filled the car prior to leaving also..
Joe; The wife still has two or three ration books still full of stamps that her
father got, I never saw any till she showed them to me. Again Joe, in the
city was a little different. She tells me lines formed for different things and
yes, flour sacks were made into dresses. Youwere lucky to get a 10 day
leave. I was shipped directly from Basic to New Jersey with one stop in
Pa. Those ration books are priceless and she has to decide what to do
with them. You were and are fortunate to live in the country. Roque