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...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...
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...
...Scrap. Consumers' inventories of scrap were less than four million tons, nearly as low as in late 1941, when many furnaces went down for lack of scrap...
...cavalry made it, anyhow, and it was more than their vehicles that turned the trick. At Plaridel (junction of Highways 5 and 3) the 37th piled into 500 Japs entrenched there and full of fight. It took a rousing scrap to kill 250 of them, chase off the rest. As the town was secured the cavalry drove in and rolled on. The Buckeye doughboys jeered them...