The work of the soldiers involved in the recovery and reuse of war materials and vehicles
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The work of the soldiers involved in the recovery and reuse of war materials and vehicles
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Soldiers of the Saving Line Making Crippled Planes Fit Again
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caption 1: An army may (ay
waste a country, but
it wastes nothing
itself. When it breaks
camp, every scrap of
material %is gathered
up. Here soldiers arc
itispiivg old “wis,
boxes, and oil-cans
caption 2: Troops for overseas
get new outfits. Their
discarded equipment
is carefully collected
and sorted. Shirts,
socks, and clothes
are repaired and
put to use again
caption 3: Even on the battlefield
the salvage work goes
on. No sooner has the
attack been driven
home than squads are
sent out to collect the
equipment of those who
have fallen in the fight
caption 4: The track of the retreating -
Germans was often marked by
the wreckage of villages and
homes. This salvage corps
man, working within sound
of the guns, is sorting and
tagging the pathetic debris
caption 5: Currycombs, buckles, blacking-
brushes, scrapers, and fly-killers
‘were among the spoils left behind
when the 76th Division went
abroad. But not even an old tin
can went to the rubbish heap—
in army camps there isn't any
such animal. Instead, down to
the last fly-swatter, the cast-
offs were picked up and fisted
by the station junk corps
caption 6: “This is an engine of war, but |
it belongs on the saving, not |
the firingline. It'sa bigstraw- |
baler, and its business is to
rebale straw on which poten-
tial heroes once slept—the
heroes having gone to fight
and the straw being needed
for mattresses for the rookies |
caption 7: One of the store-rooms in which
spare parts are kept ready for the
demands of the airplane doctors
caption 8: An airplane's flying life, even if
it escapes accidents, is only
about two weeks; therefore the
repair shops are bustling places
caption 9: A single fast dive means
taking apart the engine
to clean out the soot
caption 10: A hurry-up job on the fusclage.
The repair corps’ slogan is
“Make ‘em fit quick’
caption 11: ‘Testing an engine salvaged from a damaged
planc. The engines have to be dis-
‘mantled after every eighty hours of flying
caption 12: A badly crippled airplane arriving at a repair
depot. ~The engine alone is worth at least $5000.
New machines are built from salvaged parts
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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International Film (Image copyright)
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British official photograph (Image copyright)
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Underwood & Underwood (Image copyright)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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28-29
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 1, 1919
