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Rolling Kitchen in France

Date: 09 16 1918
Description: Food being prepared on a moving kitchen for soldiers fighting in Sainte-Mihiel, France.
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Soldier in Base Kitchen

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier at a base in Panama uses a cleaver to open a can of rhubarb sitting on a counter near a large pot. He is wearing a cap, a sleeveless shirt, and p...
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Outdoor Kitchen Scene at Saidor

Date: 01 22 1944
Description: An outdoor kitchen scene at the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Soldiers from the 121st Field Artillery Battalion are l...
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Mess Hall and Tents

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers standing around portable stoves at the mess hall for American troops. Also shows the bench seated tables and tents used by soldiers.
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Breakfast at the Zossen PoW Camp

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Description: Prisoners in the Zossen camp are lining up before the kitchen as they wait for their meals.
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Meat is Pressure Cooked with Hot Air

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Description: When a vat is completely filled with tins it is placed inside of a larger vessel, sealed tightly, and the meat is pressure cooked with hot air.
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Meat Sliced Into Smaller Pieces

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Description: After de-boning the meat is sliced into smaller pieces.
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Cut Meat Packed Air Tight

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Description: The cut pieces of meat are packed in tins and sealed to make them airtight.
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Captured Russian Kitchen

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Description: Captured Russian field kitchen. Posing for the photograph are two German cooks, admiring their new kitchen.
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Captured Russian Kitchen

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Description: Captured Russian field kitchen. German cooks posing for the camera and assessing their new kitchen.
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Austrian Field Kitchens

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Description: Austrian field kitchens and bakeries preparing to march out.
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Austrian Field Kitchen

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Description: Elevated view of an Austrian field kitchen passing through Sabac in Serbia.
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Civilians Enjoying a Free Meal

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Description: Daily scenes of the crowd gathered in front of the garrison door waiting to receive a free noon day meal from soldier's kitchen.
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Cooking on the Front

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Description: "Oh cook, you're going to over salt the soup again."
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Field Kitchen

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Description: Elevated view of a field kitchen on a bad road heading from Sabac to the front.
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Cattaro

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Description: Open air kitchen on the mole.
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Austrian Field Kitchen

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Description: Austrian field kitchen being loaded onto a ship, in Skutari. Mobile field kitchens were often, jokingly, nicknamed "goulash cannons."

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