[Milsurplus] Post War Surplus

[jzonfrelli at comcast.net]

I am from Tucson, Arizona. Yes, we had tons of surplus coming from the bone yard. My ex girl friend introduced me to her step dad. He purchased planes from the air force and converted them to fire fighting air planes. 

He invited me to come down and clean his hanger of all the ww2 and Korean era communication equipment. 

There really is some thing to be said about youth stupidity. 

However, I would be willing to go back and pan for buried treasure. 

Joe 

AF0W 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com> 
To: "Steve Hilsz" <jydsk at tds.net> 
Cc: "Milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:50:58 AM 
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Post War Surplus 

> I have seen a lot of stuff that was obviously produced late in World War 
> II, too late to be utilized and probably stored until the Korean War 
> effort, when it was re-packaged. Maybe somebody can tell us if the 
> original manufacturer repackaged this stuff or if the military inspected 
> and repackaged it. 

I've seen a bunch of stuff like that. Repackaging was generally contracted 
out to specialist companies AFAIK. 

> I know for a fact that a lot of WW II stuff was given to the public school 
> system because we had big transmitters, meters, tubes, and so on donated 
> to our Electric Shop in the early 1960's. 
> 
> In the next valley over the hills from us (in Southwest Arizona) was a big 
> camp at which General Patton trained troops for Africa. I can't 
> substantiate the rumor, but local legend says that the military dug a huge 
> pit and topped it with concrete, then covered it carefully with dirt. In 
> the pit, as the story goes, are vehicles, ammunition, and communications 
> gear. 

Let's go treasure hunting! It should be easy to fing with Ground 
Penetrating RADAR. 

-John 

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> 
> Steve Hilsz 


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