Thankfully, both split pea soup and navy bean soup are not difficult to make and infinitely better than the canned variety.

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The Navy needed more bean soup. Soon, from a nearby factory, a truck loaded with big black cans rolled out, sped to the Philadelphia airport. The cans were hustled into a plane, flown to San ...