The British: hold my beer… quite literally as they made floating brewery and used Spitfires with under wing barrels to deliver beer to troops (it got chilled in the process)
Operation Freeze flights soon became routine, rotated between the squadron’s pilots and airplanes. They went off without a hitch, wrote Reinburg, until his boss, group operations officer Colonel Caleb Bailey, called to make clear that he didn’t buy the “test flight” ruse. “Listen, goddammit, you guys aren’t fooling me,” Bailey told a VMF-122 officer. “I’ve got spies. You tell [Reinburg] I’m coming over there tomorrow and get my ration.”
The British: hold my beer… quite literally as they made floating brewery and used Spitfires with under wing barrels to deliver beer to troops (it got chilled in the process)
US troops had the same idea… but… well, ice cream
I’ll take beer over an icecream any day though.