00:00The ammunition crate splintered open, and out tumbled a flood of Tootsie Rolls.
00:05Tootsie Roll was the codename for mortar rounds.
00:08Rounds the Marines desperately needed, but the radio operator hadn't known.
00:13He'd shipped real candy into a freezing hell.
00:16Fury came first, then hunger.
00:19Sub-Zero cold had turned their rations to stone,
00:22so they chewed the frozen chocolate, letting it fuel them through the nightmare.
00:26When bullets punched through their lines, they warmed the candies in their hands,
00:31plugged the holes, and watched the cold weld them shut like iron.
00:35Days later, the real mortars finally arrived, but the candy had already saved them.
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