TOOTSIE ROLLS: The candy that saved the Marines

Beginning with WWII, just like M&Ms, Tootsie Rolls were added to field rations because the candy could hold up in a variety of weather conditions.

In November 1950 during the Korean War, 10,000 Marines from the First Marine Division and 5,000 additional soldiers of two Regimental Combat Teams of the U.S. Army, a Detachment of British Commandos and South Korean police forces faced the Chinese Commu...