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The US military thought a lot about how to entertain its soldiers because there was a lot of downtime during a war and most of them were draftees who didn't necessarily want to be there, Another thing they did was publish pocket paperback editions of books back when paperbacks were less common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Services_Editions

There were also the 2,400 specially-designed upright pianos it bought from Steinway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Vertical .

The British did better

Put beer into drop tanks on Spitfires

https://planehistoria.com/flying-pubs-spitfires-flew-beer-to...

Even though this is tongue in cheek, an ice cream barge with the requisite refrigeration and dedication of ship space 1000s of miles out in the south pacific is on a whole different scale of investment than this and they also had beer on the ships already. Though it probably wasn't as good as the british beer.

The British also had a brewery on a ship for use in the Pacific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Menestheus

That still happens in America. Hike to a remote place, and get your friend to drop a keg in a mountain lake from his plane.

"Alpine Lake Keg Drop".

When we get over the beachhead drop out of formation and land on the strip. We’re told the Nazis are fouling the drinking water, so it will be appreciated. There’s no trouble finding the strip, the battleship Rodney is firing salvoes on Caen and it’s immediately below.

Oh god. Yeah just follow the path of the 9 x 16" gun salvos from Rodney blowing big-ass holes in the ground, you can't miss it. LOL. Now those are some directions!

I like this boardgame kit that the Germans printed for their soldiers:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30082557

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