"Sad images of WWII Airplane graveyards & storage sites" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Feb 2018 10:26 p.m. PST |
"These are very sad images of now priceless, warbirds that were left to rot outside to be recycled later. During and after WWII crash landed and unrecoverable airplanes were cast aside on massive airplane piles and left for another day when there would be time to recycle them. As the war progressed wrecked enemy airfields also fell into Allied hands, with destroyed airplanes of course. Over a period of six years of conflict, from 1939 to 1945, aircraft designs had progressed in leaps and bounds…"
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| Vigilant | 10 Feb 2018 5:15 a.m. PST |
At the end of WW2 my dad was on a ground tour at RAF Wroughton when his old squadron was flown in to be scrapped. Amongst those aircraft were 4 which had flown over 100 missions, including 1 that my dad was in the 1st crew of. |
| Tango01 | 10 Feb 2018 11:49 a.m. PST |
What a sad moment!… Amicalement
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| Son of MOOG | 12 Feb 2018 7:30 a.m. PST |
A friends grandfather told us the story of how he and his crew (he was a ball turret gunner) returned to the States in their B-24 from Italy. Upon landing they were told to gather up all their belongings from inside the aircraft. As they were doing this the ground crew was preparing to tow the aircraft…….right out into a big field and destroy it along with about 15 other aircraft that had just returned!
So they got to watch their own aircraft being "decommissioned" .
Very sad for all involved. Tom D |
Darkest Star Games  | 12 Feb 2018 9:28 a.m. PST |
It takes supreme confidence to think that all of that machinery would be of no use in the very near future. Good thing we didn't hash it out with the USSR within a few years of the end of WW2… |
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