[Milsurplus] Crated new P39s

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Mark M via Milsurplus <
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

>
> The idea that boxed new aircraft would be buried never made any sense to
> me.
>

Seems I recall seeing photos of some being uncovered maybe 10 years back?
Wish I could remember.

But it makes perfect sense to me, when compared to similar happenings with
the military. Two examples that come to mind:

First from a good friend of mine who pent years in the National Guard. Each
year they went off to 'camp' at Fort Drum, NY for a couple weeks. During
their summer training they were issued X number of crates of ammunition for
practice.

Sometimes they didn't shoot it all. but early on they "learned" that you
did not turn back in unused ammunition or any other supplies as it required
extensive paperwork, in triplicate, took a long time, and irritated
everyone involved.

So they buried it before coming back in from the field.

Second involves excess 1903 Springfield 30.06 rifles stored at the
Manchester, NH armory. Several hundred. They were buried outside then paved
over with a new parking lot. No secret, many involved and knew about it.
Plenty of witnesses.

We covered others a while back involving new, never issued A-2 flight
jackets being burned and new, never issued radio gear dumped on a runway
and run over with a bulldozer and the reasoning behind it. So new-in-crate
aircraft really aren't a big leap of faith.

How about those gov't surplus jeeps back in the 70s and all that other
stuff still packed in Cosmoline? I think there were bigger fish stories in
the surviving surplus than what was tossed.

~ Todd, KA1KAQ/4
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