Interesting, I thought it was mainly ciggs in the field. I thought cigars and pipes was reserved for more formal "meetings"
Pipes in WWII
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Atikah Turkish tobacco cigarettes and extra "caffeinated" chocolates were in some of their rations.
Don't forget Hitler Flake, condor!
And yeah, I know -- "Hitler *was* a flake...."
Being from the deep south, we have plenty of things to smoke that burn our brains out.I also believe there was an aromatic called 'Hitler Blend' that was a mixture of heady bullsh*t and cheap recycled ideas that burnt the smokers brain. I believe it was reintroduced as 'Clan' in 1950 but failed to gain any traction in the U.S market in the Deep South.
On a serious note I think the Germans had some twist and certainly plug tobacco and before the war a lot of U.K blends were exported to Germany. It should be remembered that Hitler was very anti-smoking and all tobacco advertising was banned in Germany by the mid 1930s.
I would be interested in the pipes supplied by the US Army to their servicemen, and the tobacco provided. Not what the OP asked, but would be interesting.
This won't lend any historical perspective, but in point of fact, my father, born in 1917, smoked from about age 15 until he was 65, smoking pretty much all day from just after breakfast until bedtime, with time out for meals. In those days, during much of his career, he could smoke at work. He was a U.S. Navy minesweeper skipper in WWII, trained on both the east and west coast, and he shipped out to the Philippines where he was skipper of several YMS minesweepers. He always bought American made pipes, though as I child I didn't know the brands, and he always smoked Granger, nearly always from a pouch. Though Granger is rough cut Kentucky burley, it is technically aromatic flavored with molasses, and is sold as either even today. My dad quit smoking when he took a no-smoking campus job as a second career at 65, and died at 89 licensed to drive without glasses.
World War II was a hellish nightmare, I don't think that's hyperbole. What the average person or soldier smoked at the beginning of the war was probably drastically different than what was available towards the end. I think the difference would be something like a nice blend from a tobacconist to 'whatever you could get your hands on'.
That's another good question I would be interested in seeing answered.
Would they use a throwaway type or not?
I'd also like to know the answers to these good questions.
I've heard thou I don't know how true, they used to smoke tea leafs. ??
The tea leaf was smoked I think in rolled up newspaper by P.O.W's in the Far East. I heard that story from my Auntie Winnies gardener when I was a child since he was a prisoner of the Japanese for a few years during the war.
It seems to me that smoking on the battlefield might not have been the best of ideas, especially if you were trying to strategically keep your position discreet. Cigars or pipes would have been a no-no in my opinion. But warfare being what it is, anything such as ingestion of nicotine that might ease the nerves or keep the mind preoccupied is something that would be necessary.
? Ayup. That was two and a half hours of my life I’ll never get back.Because that movie was so historically correct....
Searched Google. Lot of info on cigarettes, but not much at all regarding which brand of pipe tobacco was provided to GI during WWII. But found an old post from this forum PA and HH was common.
Some institution or individual actually went to the trouble of writing a paper on the subject:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tobacco policies in Nazi Germany: not as simple as it seems - PMC
Reluctance to develop effective tobacco control measures in Germany has been attributed to the anti-smoking stance taken by the Nazis, which has encouraged pro-smoking groups to equate tobacco control advocacy with totalitarianism. This paper ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There are a few aromatic blends back in the late 30s and early 40s. Mixture #79 , Heines Blend, Cookie Jar, Revelation, Brindley's Mixture, Walnut, Sugar Barrel, they were all considered aromatics. Captain Black came out in the 1960s.
The Great War (called so before it became WWI) was nasty, nasty, nasty, perhaps in some ways worse than WWII. I can't think of any war I have read about that wasn't so. (Maybe the Falklands "war" would qualify.)
They were definitely smoking in Germany at the time.
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