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- PATTON’S 2ND ARMORED DIVISION – THE NEXT GENERATION A PERSONAL ACCOUNT BY COLONEL TOM VOSSLER – U.S. ARMY (Retired) (October 23, 2024)
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- 2019 October iPhone
- Scrapping for victory is one aspect of the WWII homefront that was no respecter of persons. Every man
- woman
- and child could participate in some way as Americans were urged to “Throw your scrap into the fight!” There were drives for all sorts of scrap metals
- newspaper
- rubber
- waste fats
- rags
- nylons and silk. Americans became very experienced in cleaning out their closets
- cupboards
- and yards in donating to the cause. Apparently
- not even an abandoned key
- hiding in a junk drawer
- was too small to overlook as demonstrated by the cardboard key collection container that survived the war.
