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English: England sends food to Channel Islands

This photograph taken by a Ministry of Food photographer on May 16th shows the people of Guernsey and Sark had received their first provisions since 1940. After June 6 1944, all German supplied food for the islands ceased and the Germans at once started to kill off livestock and eat the islanders seed potatoes. Vegetables became more and more scarce. In Guernsey a communal feeding centre was established to which everyone brought whatever they could, soup was made in bathtubs and sold at 15¢ a quart. On liberation day, the relief ship arrived loaded down with a cargo of food, transport and military equipment.

Picture shows: By Christmas 1944 the food situations was deteriorating in Guernsey and Mr. Kraeet conceived the idea of running a cash and carry feeding centre to which people brought their own foodstuffs. They brought 2 oz.of macaronni, 2 oz. of meet, and ½ pound of potatoes per week, plus whatever root vegetables they could. This was made into soup and sold for 15¢ per quart. The pciture shows Mr. Ernest Stead and another worker examining a soup boiler which was made by raising an ordinary bathtub on a brick support with a fireplace formed under the tub.
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.
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