You Too Can Aid the War Effort To help bolster war production, the government encouraged citizens to hold scrap drives and plant Victory Gardens. Salvage drives collected any kind of metal - steel, iron and tin, paper, bottles, cooking fat and oil, rubber, silk and nylon. Items were recycled into heavy armaments, aircraft parts, parachutes, ships and tanks. Recycled cloth materials were used to clean machinery or navy ship decks.
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