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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1510556, member: 12789"]It was a lot more hype than reality. The propagandists in the government wanted the population to believe that they were inconveniencing troops in the field by making them save their shell casings so they could be sent back to the states to be made into pennies. I don't doubt that shell casings were melted down for their copper for pennies, but cannot imagine in the heat of battle that someone went around scouring up all the spent casings to send back to the states.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW I have the base of a 5" shell from 1944 that was made into an ashtray by my uncle who served in the Seabees in the Pacific then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1510556, member: 12789"]It was a lot more hype than reality. The propagandists in the government wanted the population to believe that they were inconveniencing troops in the field by making them save their shell casings so they could be sent back to the states to be made into pennies. I don't doubt that shell casings were melted down for their copper for pennies, but cannot imagine in the heat of battle that someone went around scouring up all the spent casings to send back to the states. BTW I have the base of a 5" shell from 1944 that was made into an ashtray by my uncle who served in the Seabees in the Pacific then.[/QUOTE]
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