Rationing in the United States "even if Japan does not fold now, the war will certainly be over before the books can be used." On August 15, 1945, World War II gas rationing was ended on the West Coast of the United States. Most other rationing restrictions also ended in August of 1945 except for sugar rationing, which lasted until 1947 in some parts of the country. Rationing in the United States Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allotted portion of the resources being
26th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 26th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) The 26th Infantry Division () was a pre-World War II German Infantry Division of the 1st mobilisation wave ("1. Welle"). It was mobilised for World War II on September 26, 1939, disbanded on September 10, 1944, near Radom and reformed as the 26th Volksgrenadier Division ("26. Volksgrenadier-Division") on September 17, 1944, near Poznań by absorption of the new 582nd Volksgrenadier Division of the 32nd mobilisation wave ("32. Welle"). Remnants of the Division entered U.S. captivity in the Harz region in 1945. The 26th Infantry Division spent the early war years on the Western Front, taking part