[Milsurplus] post war surplus

[Hue Miller]

It's a folk myth that the US manufacturers had agreements with Sam that 
surplus material
couldn't be brought back, fearing for their business. Think about the 
surplus material
sales lists here that showed victory ships for ~$100,000 and so on.  Most, 
or anyway
"a lot" of the material crunched or burned overseas just didn't have a lot 
of use in
the postwar world, like PT boats or P-38 aircraft. The good stuff that was 
destroyed
or dumped, that was just normal stupidity expressed through the military 
medium.
The military economy really doesn't have to show a profitable bottom line. 
But
practically anything dumped overseas would have had value to "someone" - 
think
about the Chinese or Japanese scrap merchants who scrounged the Pacific war 
sites
after WW2.  -Hue