Greetings from the Skunkworks that is RationCrate.com. I hope that you find our new look more appealing and our products worth purchasing.

It is my goal to make RationCrate.com more informative and to provide you with some links to additional WW2 wooden crate/ration related
sources of information.

UPDATE

After a talk with the accounting department (Mrs Rationcrate.com)..Buster and I and Mrs Rationcrate.com have reached a decision to suspend the operation of rationcrate.com effective 7/20/2008. The cost of materials/supplies/shipping/taxes on our slim profits, has pushed us to a point of this no longer being viable.

I have always felt that there was a limit to what people would pay for an empty wooden box, unfortunately the cost of production has pushed us past that point...to continue further would mean doing business at a net loss/crate.

I have made a great many friends doing this....and to all our loyal customers Buster and I say thank you! The living history community truely is a great bunch of folks and it has been our pleaseure and privilege to meet so many of you over the past few years. Watch for our ammo boxes in the upcoming movie "PACIFIC"...and on our favorite show MAILCALL!!

This site will be up through the end of the year for your viewing pleasure.

Buster and I bid you a fond farewell!

I will be expanding the product line as time goes on and as demand dictates so check back often to see what is new
or what is coming.

About me:
I have been involved in the reenacting world since 1991, first in Civil War reenacting and later (1993) in WW2 reenacting. I have done Infantry,
Airborne and USMC. I have a 1942 Ford GPW that you will see in some of the pictures on these pages, and a 194? Bantam ¼ ton Trailer that
will also appear from time to time. The RationCrate.com global distribution center and state of the art manufacturing facility is located in my back
yard. My back yard is located in North Central Louisiana very near the city of Monroe.

About Buster:
Now I know that this is what you all have been waiting for! Buster is a lot of Jack Russell Terrier and a little "unknown". He is always ready for a
Jeep ride especially with the windshield down. Busters favorite food is MEAT and his favorite color is of course OD Green. His hobbies are
sleeping, eating and watching me work in the RationCrate.com global distribution center and state of the art manufacturing facility.

These crates are hand made by me. The dimensions are based on original specifications and all markings are based on photographic examples. Like
the original ration crates these crates are not perfect, and no two are exactly the same. The original crates were never intended to be examples of finely
detailed woodworking. They were manufactured for one unglamorous purpose...to get their contents to our Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen all over
the world in the best possible condition.
Besides our regular customers we currently we have 1 crate deployed at the US Army Quarter Masters Museum in VA, 1 crates with the
National D-Day Museum's living History Corps, 1 crate in the D-Day Museum, and 1 crate at the Aviation Historical Museum of Louisiana.

Please click on the links to the left of this page to view the products that Rationcrate.com currently has available.

Those of you that have purchased a crate from me in the past please send me some pics of your crate in action and I will post them.

Please feel free to submit any ideas for products that you think the reenacting world cannot live without.

LATEST NEWS!
RATIONCRATE.COM goes Hollywood! I don't think that they are casting our bronze star yet but Buster and I are thrilled to have our C-Ration crates appearing
on our favorite show MAIL CALL! They will be making background appearances from time to time.