[Milsurplus] post war surplus

[J. Forster]

Hue,

I've heard tales of guys seeing trailerloads of radio gear being buldozed
to dispose of it after the war. I don't think the MOD cleaned up after
battles in those days, like we do in Iraq.

-John

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> 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
>
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