Originally Posted by TerminalTrotter
During WW2, when ball bearing factories were being bombed in Germany, and there was a threat that tank production would be reduced as a result, Albert Speer sent squads out round QM stores and liberated all the buckshee bearings that storemen were holding onto 'just in case' and they managed to actually increase production of tanks while the production of bearings was brought back normal.
I seem to remember that after the fire at Hullavington a call went out asking PJIs to look in their lockers and they recovered enough parachutes to allow a Coy sized jump to proceed. (That's a centurion's worth of bodies to the non airborne)