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Show Worn Fish Nets Go Off To War as Camouflage FORD ORD, CALIF. Additional thousands of square feet of fishing nets were turned over to the post engineers' property office at Ford Ord this month by patriotic Monterey Mon-terey Bay fishermen for army camouflage cam-ouflage purposes, CoL Roger S. Fitch, post commander, announced. Previously, up to 600,000 square feet of net enough to equip thousands thou-sands of soldiers with head and body camouflage were donated to the army by the same fishermen, many of them Italian aliens and naturalized natural-ized Italians, Celonel Fitch said. The nets, while worn out according accord-ing to fishing standards, are of a much finer weave than those issued by the army and represent a huge saving to the government. Colonel Fitch pointed out. When new, the nets cost anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000, he said- |