Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Soon after the end of World War I, the US ratified the 18th Amendment, ushering in Prohibition. Returning US soldiers weren’t all that enthusiastic about it, to say the least. Alcohol had been a part of military life since the American Revolution. As the 1920s dragged on, the army seemed to react to the alcohol ban the same way the rest of the country did: by ignoring it.
Observance of Prohibition in the breech was also common amongst junior officers. While commanding tank battalions and living next door to one another in renovated barracks at Camp Meade, Maryland, Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton avidly partook in the new American pastime of making their own bootleg alcohol. Eisenhower distilled gin in an unused bathtub, while Patton brewed beer,…
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