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Show Battlefield Salvage, Scrap, Reclaimed, Made Into New U. S. Fighting Weapons Thousands of tons of battlefield salvage and scrap are being returned to the United States, the war department has revealed. As much as possible possi-ble is repaired in war plants, and scrap iron is disposed of through normal trade channels for return to the war effort. Weapons the Japs have hurled against Americans in the Pacific theater of war and Nazi planes and tanks which fell into Allied hands in North Africa and Sicily are included in the growing scrap pile which is turned into new and improved weapons. weap-ons. The number of items and the volume vol-ume of this battle scrap and salvage s are increasing by such proportions that the army found it practical to establish a segregation yard at a port of embarkation. In May ships docking at a single port deposited 1,500 gross tons of ferrous scrap and 400,000 pounds of non-ferrous scrap. In June, the salvage sal-vage from battlefields received at this port included 2,700 tons of ferrous fer-rous scrap and 763 tons of non-ferrous scrap. The salvage also included in-cluded 1,000,000 pounds of scrap rubber. rub-ber. Hundreds of boxes of repairable airplane engines are included in the returned cargoes. Tons of oxygen and acetylene cylinders, many thousand thou-sand ammunition containers and many more thousands of items for different technical services are being be-ing returned and sent through the proper channels for reprocessing, the army announced. In May, it was added, the items for repair and eventual reissue received re-ceived at one port included 4,400 55-gallon 55-gallon steel drums, 135 tons of half track, 55,000 pounds of shoes, 90,500 pounds of clothing, 10,000 pounds of webbing, and 10,500 pounds of canvas. can-vas. Scrap is returned to this country for reprocessing as only one phase of the army's salvage program. The story of assembly lines near battle areas, and repair shops of every conceivable type, in the war zones makes another dramatic chapter in the history of this global war. ' 1 " - i i Wrecked Japanese Zeros at a Brooklyn salvage depot are examined exam-ined by U. S. army officers. This material will be reclaimed and eventually fired back at the country from which it came. |