[Milsurplus] CH. 5 DEMOBILIZATION AND DISARMAMENT OF JAPANESE ARMED FORCES

[Hue Miller]

"Initial destruction methods of enemy aircraft employed by the Occupation forces are typified in the following account:

With the XI Corps Artillery in Mito-Two of the white peace negotiation planes bearing green crosses were among the 1,500 Japanese aircraft destroyed during the past 12 days by men of the 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion which is located just northeast of Tokyo. 

Moving in on 12 airfields, and covering a ground area of 800 square miles, these men have organized into what they call " Destruction Incorporated" crews. A crew consists of five men, a Japanese full track prime mover and a gas pump spray mounted on a Japanese truck. 

The system for destruction is simple, but believed to be foolproof. Two men on the prime mover pull the planes to the selected burning area. One man searches the entire plane for bombs and ammunition. Another member punctures all gas tanks to prevent explosion. The remaining man stands by the gas pump spray and at the signal "all clear" sprays Japanese synthetic gas over the plane to be destroyed. It is then ignited and the crew moves on to the next aircraft."

via Hue Miller:
Does this allow for a few minutes of souvenir shopping before spraying the gas over the planes? NO ??? 

This publication was referred to in a newsletter I recently received, and while I cannot spend time on reading the whole thing now, interesting as it is, I thought I’d mark it and pass
on the reference, as there are, I suspect, an individual or two also interested in the wider topic of military detritus, left-overs. Some interesting photos too. There may be much more
of interest on this website.

Above quote from report
http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/MacArthur%20Reports/MacArthur%20V1%20Sup/ch5.htm#b7

The search page for this Army history website is 
http://www.history.army.mil/search/index.html#
and, knowing the approximate title of the material, I entered into the search “Demobilization and Disarmament” etc.
Many interesting (to me) topics, such as repatriations, last charge of the suicide submarines (late August 1945), and so on.