Show ik 1 IN AMERICA ACTION 1 U S BAKERY IN INDIA By Cal Col Karl Detzer AN AMERICAN BASE IN INDIA American soldIers m in tills this part of Ind a are eat ng good American wrote white bread turned out each day by thousands of ef loaves m in a bakery that isn t a bakery at all For months soldiers had been complaining about the native bread breadStill breadStill Still there was no room aboard the heavily laden ships for the ery necessary to set up a bakery lD in a war theater There were no ovens no baking tins no fire boxes There was no white American flour dour One day two months ago a ship steamed into harbor WIth a cargo of flour dour from s The base quartermaster caned called in ills his assIst assIstants assistants ants and told them to make It into G I bread Sergeants and corporals toured the town brought m in brIcks and scrap iron and some old sets of grates from an abandoned factory bOIler room A lIeutenant drew spec specifications l for an oven NatIve brick bricklayers bricklayers layers went to work and soon the bakery began to take shape Still there were no bak ng tins But over m in the salvage damp were several hundred leaky gallon oil oilcans oilcans cans Smart sergeants began to cut them up and turn oer t their edges bed they made excellent sub substitute bread pans Flour still was a problem for the quantity aboard the single ship was limited There was plenty of local flour ava lable but used alone it gave a sour musty taste to all bread Using the trial and error method quartermaster bakers trained in the army servIce forces cooks and bakers schools found that a mIXture of 40 per cent Amerl Amer can flour and 60 00 per cent native product made bread that all the sol soldiers diers enJoyed The Improvised bakery has a en ca to supply 20 men a day dayBread dayBread Bread now Is being trucked hun bun hundreds of mIles to distant posts and anda a new bakery also put together WIth whatever materials are at I hand is ia being bUIlt in another base port several thousand mules nules away Released by Western Union |