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Pile of "War Effort"

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British housewives donated their aluminum pots and pans to be melted down and made into airplanes. As this enormous pile of pots and pans shows, women in 1940 were more than generous with their contributions to the war effort. Scrap metal drives provided a source of aluminum, but they also created a sense of community on the home front and an opportunity for everyone to feel as though they were contributing to the war effort.