[ARC5] RAT and RAT-1: The Arizona Connection

[Leslie Smith]

Hello Group,
In the Solomon Islands (as I understand) there is a place called (by
ex-pats) "Million Dollar Point".
This comes from the quantity of material bulldozed into the Pacific at
the end of WWII.
An army dump some hundreds of meters long had equipment piled on either
side of a driving or area around the point.  The lot went in.

A fellow, Frank Aveling, told me he watched while men filled 44 gallon
drums on the back of "utilities" (you call the pick-up trucks) by
driving a pick-axe into the fuel tanks of fighter aircraft, then
draining the fuel with a funnel into the drums.

Legislation prevented any of the material being returned to the US,
according to Frank.

73s de 

  Les
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 01:37 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2012 at 15:49, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
> 
> > No
> > surprise that gov't inefficiency would show up in the military as
> > well.
> 
> I also remember being told of a base in Alaska. At the end of WWII, 
> there was a huge pile of material at the base. Blankets, food, etc. 
> When the commander of the base asked his higher-ups what to do with 
> it, he was told, "Throw it in the fire.".
> 
> So, he had a long, but not very wide, fire built down the center of 
> his local runway, lined up all the "excess" material on one side of 
> the fire with the necessary men to handle it, and had them throw it 
> all "in the fire". 
> 
> Meanwhile, the locals on the OTHER side of the fire caught it and 
> took it home.
> 
> In another instance, I was told of by one who was there, that many, 
> many ships were simply unloaded into the Pacific ocean at the end of 
> WWII.
> 
> There is supposed to be an entire shipload of AR-88s at the bottom of 
> the ocean near Seattle, but that is most likely an apochryphal 
> story...
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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