American Red Cross Prisoner of War Food Package No. 10
date: label: associated dates
content: 1941-1945
name: label: issuing authority
content: Red Cross
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Brown cardboard box, marked with a red cross and lettered in black "American Red Cross Prisoner of War Food Package No. 10 for Distribution through the International Red Cross Committee."
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: Filled by Red Cross volunteers in the United States, in cooperation with the army's Quartermaster Corps, these boxes were then shipped to the International Committee of the Red Cross warehouse in Geneva Switzerland. From Switzerland, the boxes were shipped to the nearly 1.4 million Allied prisoners of war held in Germany. The boxes usually contained the following: army spread, canned bacon, luncheon meat, salmon, dehydrated corned beef, canned-cheese product, soluble coffee, powdered milk, and chocolate D bars. Non-food items included: toilet paper, soap, paper towels, can opener, needles, thread, patching cloth, vitamin capsules, salt, and tobacco.
place: label: made at
content: United States
label: used
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: POWs
label: related event
content: World War II
label: related event
content: The Great Depression and World War II
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.3030.30
label: catalog number
content: 1992.3030.30
label: nonaccession number
content: 1992.3030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box
label: Other Terms
content: box; General Collection
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 12 cm x 24.5 cm x 24.5 cm; 4 3/4 in x 9 5/8 in x 9 5/8 in