2014 Victory Cross Country Tour

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Originally Posted by redjay

"You didn't spend two weeks on a British ship on the way home being served nothing but boiled mutton and eating nothing but chocolate to avoid the mutton. They literally nearly had a mutiny over it".

From what I understand it was the Americans that had the chocolate, not the British ?
Chocolate would have been a luxury and I dont think the convoys were heavily laden with chocolate destined for the U.K ?

At least they were not fed greasy fish and chips and warm beer (g).

For what its worth my dad was in the British army and threw up everytime he was onboard ship.
Must have been the mutton and chocolate ?

Lucky for the crew there was chocolate, but it's scary to imagine airmen piloting a ship!