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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2741017, member: 66&quot;]According to Roger Burdette, the shell casing were mostly 50 cal and were from domestic training sites.&nbsp; HOWEVER, the figures he gives for the amount of casing delivered to the mints would only account for about 1/3 of the coinage, and he says that tons of casing were also used for the Peru coinage.&nbsp; Unless there were a lot more casing delivered than what he says, they had to be getting copper elsewhere as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for recovering casings during wartime action, back when I joined my first coin club in 1975, several of the older members had served during WWII and at least one of them that had served in the navy did say that one of his jobs was to recover and &quot;corral&quot; the spent casings for recycling.&nbsp; He also said that during the heat of the battle they tended to get loose and in the way so instead of &quot;corraling&quot; them they just jettisoned them over the side.&nbsp; No guarantee that is accurate, just a story relayed to me by an old sailor that was there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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