3-023-852 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

A Woman Buying Meat at a Butcher's Shop, 1942. Britain during the Second World War. '...you went on fighting the enemy in the only way you knew how, by somehow getting along, day by day, with what there was, and making it go as far as it could...[Butcher:] "Really Mrs Jones, that's all the meat today". [Customer:] "What, these few pieces?"...[Butcher:] "Your ration book, please. Turned out nice again didn't it?"' From "Time To Remember - The End Of The Beginning", 1942 (Reel 4); documentary film about events of 1942 and America's entry into the war.