[ARC5] Blackout ; Lend Lease and ARC-5's

[Michael A. Bittner]

Sorry, I left out the word "think" in the last sentence of my previous version of this message.  Mike, W6MAB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael A. Bittner 
  To: kgordon2006 at frontier.com ; D C *Mac* Macdonald 
  Cc: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 1:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [ARC5] Blackout ; Lend Lease and ARC-5's


  I'll bet a lot of that AL was used for millions of canteens among other things.

  FWIW here are a couple of my mementos from WWII. On the left is a General Eisenhower medal that I won as a 10-year-old during the war.  Lots of little kids won this medal by collecting 2000 lbs of paper for the scrap drive.  Believe me, that's quite a pile for a ten year old.
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vc1c3bpgd8s74n/IMG_5242.JPG
  On the right are a couple rationing coupons that you needed to buy meat, sugar, and other things that have previously been mentioned.

  We needed no psy-ops with the Gold-Star-Mother banners in the windows of houses, the constant air raid drills (my dad was also an air raid warden for our block), the 24-7 drone of aircraft engines being tested at the factory in nearby Patterson NJ, the training biplanes doing loops and rolls over the fields around our town, the search lights tracking aircraft at night, the oil fires off the Jersey shore, well I could go on and on. 

  My parents belonged to the ANZAC club, an arrangement whereby Australian and New Zealand sailors could live in our house for the few days they had shore leave while their ships were in New York harbor. Most amusing were their comments on the American way of making tea "What is this sopping little bag for?" and our news broadcasts "You would think the Americans are doing everything!".

  Mike, W6MAB
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Kenneth G. Gordon 
    To: D C *Mac* Macdonald 
    Cc: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net 
    Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 12:31 PM
    Subject: Re: [ARC5] Blackout ; Lend Lease and ARC-5's


    On 8 Jul 2012 at 14:07, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:

    > AFAIK, aluminum can be recycled almost endlessly.

    Yes. Besides, the science of metallurgy was well advanced by WWII. Trash 
    contained in most metals could be fairly easily removed.

    Ken W7EKB