The WW2 beer thread!

This is the thread for WW2 beer. Pictures of beer brands, soldiers drinking beer, ww2 beer bottles and caps etc.. are welcome. Only beer and WW2 items please.




http://www.300thcombatengineersinwwii.com/camp.html




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http://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ballantine-Beer-WWII.jpg

VE day with Ballantine beer!

 

I like information about WWII and I like beer. I guess this is the perfect thread

I think Skipper's second picture is just a typical bunch on R&R on Mog Mog Island at Ulithi Atol rather than VE day.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ulithi+wwii+beer+garden&biw=1252&bih=589&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitpJ-4tLDNAhWJKCYKHecMAWQQsAQIGw

 

This video is from one of my favorite movies. The scene with the beer is legit, and conforms with the rules and regulations of the thread. The movie was made during the war in 1945 using real US servicemen as extras. Real beer was consumed as well. As far as Iknow of that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCGD6rX3GNc

 

http://warontherocks.com/2015/06/a-farewell-to-sobriety-part-two-drinking-during-world-war-ii/

 

more


http://mendobrew.com/blog/980_beer-cans-church-keys-to-pop-tops/

Cans had some significant advantages over bottles: They were lighter, easier to stack and more durable. They could also be chilled more quickly than bottles and did not require the consumer to pay a deposit. In just three months, more than 80 percent of distributors were delivering Krueger’s canned beer. Canned beer continued to grow in popularity, particularly during WW II when millions of cans were sent to the soldiers overseas. The soldiers who returned to the US had become used to drinking beer out of cans and familiar with how to open them. (One difference between pre-war and post-cans is the absence of opening instructions on the back of the cans.)

 

The British enjoyed draught beer in Normandy...
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In the Western Desert the local Egyptian beer was Stella - but not as we know it!
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And some New Zealand soldiers with same
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But the beer brand most associated with WW2 was brewed form the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain
http://www.spitfireale.co.uk/ads

 

ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) 'glamour girls' distribute cigarettes and beer to the troops in North Africa, 26 July 1942.


THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942. © IWM (E 14919)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

Mrs Pitt, wife of the landlord, pours a pint of beer for a naval officer in the saloon bar of 'The Cricketers' pub in Brighton. The original caption states that this pub has been in existence since 1545. Landlord Robert Pitt (not pictured as he was ill on the day the photograph was taken) has held the license for 58 years and is now 90 years old. According to the original caption, he still serves behind the bar.


BRIGHTON TODAY: EVERYDAY LIFE IN WARTIME BRIGHTON, SUSSEX, ENGLAND, UK, 1944. © IWM (D 22509)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

Men of the Defence Company, 2nd Army Headquarters enjoying an issue of beer, Creully, 14 July 1944.


THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN 1944. © IWM (B 7270)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

Newly-repatriated New Zealand Prisoners of War share a joke as they enjoy a pint of beer in a busy pub in Margate, Kent. One of their number is playing the accordion.


NEW ZEALAND REPATRIATES ARRIVE IN ENGLAND: EVERYDAY LIFE FOR REPATRIATED POWS IN MARGATE, KENT, ENGLAND, UK, APRIL 1945. © IWM (D 24533)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

A sergeant of the Royal Military Police enjoys an Austrian mug of beer and a Tyrolean pipe.


THE EIGHTH ARMY IN THE KLAGENFURT AREA OF AUSTRIA, MAY 1945. © IWM (TR 2867)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

Free French soldiers and sailors enjoy a pint of beer in a London pub, 1940. A young woman serves them their drinks.




ALLIED SOLDIERS LIKE LONDON AND LONDON LIKES THEM: OVERSEAS TROOPS IN ENGLAND, 1940. © IWM (D 1725)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

During a picnic in the New Forest, American airman Lieutenant 'Judy' Judas falls victim to a practical joke. Having been challenged to drop a penny from his forehead into his trousers, he is caught unawares by Lieutenant Royal Firmin, Jr., from Amherst, who instead pours a bottle of beer into his trousers. Lieutenant Firmin runs the estate at Stanbridge Earls, as assistant to Captain B B Morse. It is his main job to keep the guests happy.


COUNTRY CLUB FOR US AIRMEN: REST AND RECUPERATION IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE, STANBRIDGE EARLS, ROMSEY, HAMPSHIRE, 1943. © IWM (D 14549)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

The old spitrire adverts were better http://www.slideshare.net/bazhoyle/spitfire-ads

 

American soldiers enjoy glasses of British beer at a NAAFI somewhere in England. Left to right, they are: Corporal Russell Durant (of Waupaca, Wisconsin), Private Rudolph Bohaty (of West Allis, Wisconsin), and Private Elias Weinberg (of 50 East 21st Street, Brooklyn, New York). British soldiers also make use of this NAAFI, including Private S Etchells, who can be seen, just to the right of Private Weinberg. Corporal Durant is smoking a cigarette.



NAAFI CANTEENS CATER FOR US TROOPS: THE WORK OF THE NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE INSTITUTES, ENGLAND, UK, 1943. © IWM (D 17232)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

Two airmen of No. 2866 Rifle Squadron RAF Regiment celebrate the end of the Italian campaign with a special issue of beer, while sitting on top of their Daimler Mark I Scout Car. On the left is Leading Aircraftman H Fowden of London, and on the right, Leading Aircraftman J Mills of Colchester, Essex.


ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.. © IWM (CNA 3557)IWM Non Commercial Licence

 

Spitfire beer run for the allied troops



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http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2014/08/beer-keg-carrying-spitfires-world-war-two/

 

Great thread! Keep it up guys.