Folder: CA. Wars. World War II. Salvage
Note attached to photo: "Scrap 'em, they're obsolete! These Big Bertha versions of the little trench mortars of new design that did such good work peppering the fortress that held out at Algiers arrived at a Bethlehem Steel Company plant recently to be scrapped. This is a war of modern equipment, the army says. These weren't. They're obsolete, the army says, and we need the scrap. Each one of these old coastal defense railway mortars has enough scrap in it to make more than 3000 of the type of trench mortars that helped to take Algiers, or 170 3-inch anti-aircraft guns.".
