Prepping basics, from 50 years ago . . .

Discuss being prepared for contingencies and emergencies. Oh yeah, and the coming Zombie Apocalypse, of course!
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Prepping basics, from 50 years ago . . .

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Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find:

– One forty-five caliber automatic
– Two boxes of ammunition
– Four days’ concentrated emergency rations
– One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
– One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
– One hundred dollars in rubles
– One hundred dollars in gold
– Nine packs of chewing gum
– One issue of prophylactics
– Three lipsticks
– Three pair of nylon stockings.

Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”



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The pilots were cross-dressers? Who knew?!! :shock:
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Be careful carrying all that gold; might throw your back out!

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At today's prices, $100.00 in gold is 35 grains of gold, just under half the weight of a 5.56 bullet. :think:
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Flash wrote: December 11th, 2018, 3:32 pm At today's prices, $100.00 in gold is 35 grains of gold, just under half the weight of a 5.56 bullet. :think:
And in the 1950's, with the price set by law at $35/ounce, it would have been around 3 ounces.

I wonder how many rounds were in each "box of ammo." That's a fair amount of weight. They must have expected to do a lot of shooting. I wonder how many magazines they got with their .45 autos.
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[/quote]I wonder how many rounds were in each "box of ammo." [/quote]

50 CARTRIDGES PISTOL BALL CALIBER .45 M1911 (WW2 STEEL CASE) - Full sealed box of 50 rounds of WW2 steel case .45 ACP ammo made at the Evansville, IN, Ordnance Plant. Headstamp is E C S 43. Nice full sealed box in the cheap kraft box with black printing. Lot EC-S 25244 Will include free sample of a steel case round upon request but headstamp may or may not be exactly the same on these. These were issued with all the .45 caliber weapons, M1911 pistols, M3 and Thompson SMGs during WW2 and for a long time afterwards.

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