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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1510790, member: 66&quot;]My understanding is that the casings that were actually recycled came from domestic training ranges not from combat.</p><p><br /></p><p>If some of the coin club members I knew when I was younger were to be believe though, someone did forget to tell at least some of the troops that they didn&#039;t have to save the casings.&nbsp; At least two of the members of the Louisville Coin Club served in the navy during WWII.&nbsp; They worked with the smaller guns and their job was to take the expended casing and discard it out of the turret and over the side to get it out of the way.&nbsp; In 1944 orders came down to stop discarding them and the save them for recycling.&nbsp; This lasted until shortly after the first combat contact.&nbsp; The hot casings quickly got out of hand and underfoot.&nbsp; Orders or no orders they started going back over the side.&nbsp; This story is from the mouths of two veterans who were there to me.&nbsp; I have no reason to doubt them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly though the logistics of collecting casings from combat situations and then shipping them back halfway around the world for recycling makes no sense.&nbsp; Recycling casings from training ranges makes a lot more sense.&nbsp; And like I said the recycled casings was most likely a token PR&nbsp; thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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