[ARC5] Hamming of Surplus Equipment

[Jay Coward]

My Great Uncle Richard Lamborn's PT boat was burned with the majority of the boats in the Phillapeans after VJ Day. Tons of V-12's in a coral reef somewhere...
Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: Todd, KA1KAQ <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 2:25 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Hamming of Surplus Equipment


On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
 wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2012 at 14:29, Robert  Eleazer wrote:

 > Relative to the subject question, a college professor told me that in
 > 1945 he was directed to destroy 100 B-25's in southern Germany by
 > means of explosives and burying the remains - and specifically was
 > told by a general officer that he would NOT remove the radio equipment
 > for use by US forces there.

 I think all of us can relate similar stories: I have heard at least three.

One of my profs in college (the one who traded me the BC-455B and helped me
modify' it) provided two instances I recall. One was new/unissued A2
eather flight jackets being piled on the ground and burned. Another was a
ump truck load of NIB receivers (the re-packaged airborne SX-28s, can't
emember the mil number) being slowly dumped in a line along a runway then
un over with a dozer. He said the reasoning was that sending all vs some
f the surplus back would've driven some companies out of business.
Another story came from a SeaBee who told me about shoving aircraft off
arriers and also pushing them off a steep cliff into the ocean somewhere
n the south Pacific post war.
Though on a more controlled level, scrapping goes on today in AZ with
urplussed aircraft. At least some of them get a second lease on life.
~ Todd/KAQ
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