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

Sun Jul 8 20:56:44 EDT 2012

I was told that the collected pots and pans, etc, were ground up to make
Thermite, a stociometric mix of Al powder and Iron Oxide. That was packed
into bombs. The stuff burns very very hot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite

That use makes a lot of sense to me, because alloy is irrelevant.
Remember, incendiaries destroyed Dresden and much of Tokyo, causing
firestorms.

-John

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> Hello List:
>> "The collected scrap was ground up to make Thermite for bombs. In that
>> application, alloy is irrelevant." - John Foster
>
>
> What?  You mean they had thousands of people working in dozens of
> factories, making this "stuff", and after it was made they shipped it
> across the Atlantic, only to blew it up?  What's the point in that?
>
> Surely - you've got to be joking, Mr. Feynman.
>
>
>
>   Les
>   vk2bcu at operamail.com
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>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012, at 04:56 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> I have been given an answer off-list that makes much more sence.
>>
>
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ==============
>>
>>
>> > 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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