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War On The Home Front - Page 3


© Ralph Zuljan
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Other common household items disappeared. A great push was made to collect aluminum pots and pans, they were melted down and reappeared as fighter planes. Cigarette wrappers (when you could get cigarettes, they were very scarce) were, at that time, made largely of lead. These too were collected and turned into war material as were iron fences, railings and decorative items. Anything that could be collected and used in the war effort was . War time Britons brought reduce, reuse, and recycle to a high art.

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