Tootsie Rolls Used In War? 🤨

they opened the pallet of ammunition only to find it was full of Tootsie Rolls you see Tootsie Roll was a code name for Mortar rounds which the Marines desperately needed but the radio operator who received the order didn't know that and sent the actual candy Instead at first the Marines were angry but the subfreezing temperatures had Frozen all their food and the candies ended up sustaining them over the next few days they even used them to plug bullet holes by warming them up and letting them freeze in place and eventually the real mortar rounds did

arrive