[Milsurplus] Fwd: Those P-39s Still in the Crates...

[Hubert Miller]

The immediate postwar years are a source of endless interest for me. 
I suppose it's because i have always liked fleamarkets, junqtique stores, and the old Army-Navy Surplus stores,
and it seems to me the postwar years were kind of a massive version of that. 
Yes, i understand the price millions of deceased paid in that storm. 
There's not a whole lot been published on the era, AFAIK, at least in a unified way. You see articles here and there.
Fields full of Japanese planes to be burned. KOd tanks in Europe, or a columns of German vehicles at a steel plant in
USSR. 

I recall reading, in the Brit publication "World at War",  issue focused on POW experience, an anecdote about German
POWs loading captured German communications equipment onto a train. The POWs were issued shovels and ordered
to load the equipment. One German POW pointed out that loading the parts and equipment that way, like coal, was 
likely to damage it. But - it met the "quota".

My father once told me about his vehicle convoy passing a wrecked Italian airfield in North Africa. I asked if he had a chance to do any
'shopping' there.  He said his train was rolling and wasn't stopping. Someone else got to do the shopping there. 
-Hue