Firewood During WWII - vehicles fueled with firewood via gasification

Despite all what I know about WWII, I did not know that there were vehicles fueled by firewood

https://youtu.be/9T9Jjin6v40

I was just a kid during WW11but I remember what went on - a lot of things were rationed - the things that affected us the most was the rationing of sugar, butter, gas, meat - the one thing that was common in my neighborhood was the small banners that people had in their windows - each banner had stars on them noting how many from that house was in the military - if it was a gold star then someone got killed in the military - my mother and father both immigrated from Germany in the mid 20s - during the war I was always fighting with kids that were calling me names because I was from German family - the one thing that helped was there were quite few German families in the area - a coal mining town in northeastern Pennsylvania - I had an uncle who was in the German army and was killed on the Russian front - I had two other uncles that immigrated when my parents did and were killed in mine accidents - there are so many people around who don't have any idea how things were during that war -

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Originally Posted by JoePa

I was just a kid during WW11but I remember what went on - a lot of things were rationed - the things that affected us the most was the rationing of sugar, butter, gas, meat - the one thing that was common in my neighborhood was the small banners that people had in their windows - each banner had stars on them noting how many from that house was in the military - if it was a gold star then someone got killed in the military - my mother and father both immigrated from Germany in the mid 20s - during the war I was always fighting with kids that were calling me names because I was from German family - the one thing that helped was there were quite few German families in the area - a coal mining town in northeastern Pennsylvania - I had an uncle who was in the German army and was killed on the Russian front - I had two other uncles that immigrated when my parents did and were killed in mine accidents - there are so many people around who don't have any idea how things were during that war -

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Good stories Joe and please keep them coming. Most people, especially many Canadians, never knew, have forgotten, or have chosen not to learn about the hard times you speak of.

Interesting Joe, I always love hearing stories about people's experiences of the war

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Originally Posted by JoePa

I was just a kid during WW11but I remember what went on - a lot of things were rationed - the things that affected us the most was the rationing of sugar, butter, gas, meat - the one thing that was common in my neighborhood was the small banners that people had in their windows - each banner had stars on them noting how many from that house was in the military - if it was a gold star then someone got killed in the military - my mother and father both immigrated from Germany in the mid 20s - during the war I was always fighting with kids that were calling me names because I was from German family - the one thing that helped was there were quite few German families in the area - a coal mining town in northeastern Pennsylvania - I had an uncle who was in the German army and was killed on the Russian front - I had two other uncles that immigrated when my parents did and were killed in mine accidents - there are so many people around who don't have any idea how things were during that war -

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I sure know how the war affected my family. My Dad was overseas for 6 years with the Hastings Prince Edward Regiment. 600 went overseas to Italy in 1939 and 250 came home. My Dad came home a shadow of himself never to recover. I won't go into details , but it wasn't nice.