Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time after Sicily the Army was about ready to scrap the airborne divisions; even some of its most progressive commanders feared that a division was too unwieldy a unit to jump and glide. Ridgway and the other airborne men had to summon all their powers of tact and persuasion. In the end they prevailed, and the divisions survived to undergo the test of D-day in Normandy...
...Fence Me In. For recreation the prisoners play soccer, make mess-hall and barracks decorations out of tin cans and other scrap, watch censored movies, organize orchestras and put on plays. Costumes are improvised from anything that comes to hand; no material for such goings-on is supplied by the Army. No recreational equipment is supplied by the Army, either. It is bought for them with profits from their PXs or they must rely on Red Cross packages...
...armor plate, they first substituted chromium and molybdenum alloys, then used thin sheets of steel bonded together, which require much less alloy for hardening than does a single thick plate. The analysis showed the Germans used their small supply of alloy metals again & again, by painstakingly sorting the scrap from their wrecked armor, according to its alloy content...
...mixed, he can tell, by close study of alloys and traces of other elements present, just where the metal came from. The metallurgists' analysis of Jap materials identified one source of the abundance: "a considerable part" of the metal now killing U.S. fighting men came from the scrap which the U.S. sold to Japan before...
WHILE THEY WERE BEING BOUND IN A BATTERED PLANT HALF A MILE FROM WHERE THE BATTLE FOR INTRAMUROS STILL RAGED A JAP SNIPER WAS HIDING IN A SCRAP PILE 50 YARDS AWAY. OCCASIONALLY POT-SHOOTING AT PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. GUERRILLAS GUARDING THE PLANT ARE STILL UNABLE TO ROUT HIM OUT. WHEN THE PRINTED PAGES WERE BEING TRUCKED TO THE BINDERY IN A WEAPONS CARRIER, THE JAPS FIRED ON US A FEW MILES OUT OF THE CITY. NO ONE WAS HURT...