There are a lot of funny war stories, beacuse I am assured that life was not always bleak and tragic. My father was a petty officer with the Royal Navy, and during one incident in Australia he managed to obtain several tons of canned peaches his intentions being to sell them when he returned home to the UK (my father WAS the blackmarket). He secreted them in a safe place just outside of Brisbane and the ship then sailed for a week. On his return he found that the bunker in which he had stashed his hoard was now under a brand new highway. He is 81 now but I think he still intends to go back with a shovel one day!