pretty much any battle damaged vehicle will have something which can be salvaged off of it. The US maintained a small depot level maintenance site in the FRG, but during wartime some of the Ro-Ro's would be taking vehicles back to the US for Depot level maintenance (reconstruction) at Anniston Army Depot. By doing so you lengthen the amount of time you have to ramp up your new production capacity to wartime levels, by drawing on recovered vehicles in addition to war reserves...
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