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Weapons from waste. This is where they come in. These old shells rested for years, along with thousands of other discarded articles, in a junkyard, but now they'll be given another chance to serve their country. Junk today, they'll be melted down to provide the streamlined armament of tomorrow
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Credit lineWeapons from waste. This is where they come in. These old shells rested for years, along with thousands of other discarded articles, in a junkyard, but now they'll be given another chance to serve the. 1941-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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