Remember the scene towards the end of the
movie The Best Years of Their Lives where the former B-17 crewman wandering through the aircraft boneyard is told the planes scrap will be melted down to create materials for construction of new homes….

Chris B.  AJ1G
Stonington CT

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On Sep 18, 2023, at 18:33, [email protected] wrote:



If it’s on Quora, it’s likely BS.  I feel dumber every time I get sucked in to reading a Quora post.

Scott W7SVJ

 

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave Merrill
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 15:11
To: Hubert Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; ARC-5 List <[email protected]>; Military Surplus net List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Disposition of surplus aircraft, Europe WWII

 

Some info here:

 

Dave N9ZC 

 

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 3:46 PM Hubert Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

In some Quora discussion one fellow mentioned he had read of US surplus planes in Europe, being burned after end of war.

I questioned this. I know about planes in the Pacific area being burned, but the vet told me that Japanese planes were burned.

I gather US planes were cannibalized for parts and then bulldozed, or maybe just pushed off the deck.  In Europe i don’t think

any plane was burned. There was a metal industry to feed, i mean increasingly after maybe 1947, as Europe came back to life.

Do you, reader, know anything about this subject? References?

thanks-

Hue Miller

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