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

[J. Forster]

I have been given an answer off-list that makes much more sence.

The collected scrap was ground up to make Thermite for bombs. In that
application, alloy is irrelevant.

-John

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> Alloy 75S (aka 7075) was developed during WW2.
>
> Besides most aircraft electronics were housed in aluminum chassis and
> enclosures along with IF, and other cans, engine pistons, some shipboard
> USN
> electronics; even armor piercing shells were made of aluminum.
>
> After awhile it ads up and what scrap could be used elsewhere freed up
> more
> virgin metal for aircraft alloys.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael A. Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>
> To: <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>; "D C *Mac* Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <ARC5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 4:58 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 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
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