OC) sending a year's supply of food
Food was scarce but they were able to ration to give to there love ones.
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. ... But the Battle of Stalingrad (one of Russia's important industrial cities) ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces.
Personally, I see it as a mixture of both a and b but my first instinct was to go with b.