Canada did it too
CFB Petawawa near Ottawa, Ontario - we are trying to locate a trench where
they buried a bunch of WWII GERMAN vehicles including armour. Late 1940s or
early 1950s. MV collectors are actively researching and trying to pinpoint
the location.
CFB Shearwater, Nova Scotia - LtCommander Ken Meikle, a Royal Canadian Navy
aviator, told me that they buried Seafires (Mark XV) as landfill and Liberty
aircraft engines, when extending the runways. (c. 1950s-1960s).
5 Operational Training Unit (5OTU) - RAF B-24 base in Abbotsford, British
Columbia. After the war they scrapped the B-24 bombers. Aircraft radios were
put in a trench and a bulldozer was driven back and forth. Ref. Michael
DesMazes, Curator, Fraser Valley Military Museum who was told by
eyewitnesses.
Colin Macgregor Stevens
MVPA Member 954 (since 1977)
Editor: "Maple Leaf Up!" newsletter & Webmaster
of Western Command Military Vehicle Historical Society
(Established 1977)
Pitt Meadows (East of Vancouver but not beyond Hope)
British Columbia, CANADA
Owner of:
1944 Willys MB jeep (ex-Norway)
1942 BSA airborne bicycle
1943 Ford GPA amphibious jeep (unrestored, modified for world travel by
Lionel Forge in the late 1950s-1960s)
Personal web site: http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net
E-mail: colin@pacdat.net
Club web site: http://www.westerncommand.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "islander" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Urban legend or not? trenches of parts, long
> Hello Tony,
>
> >we were told that it would cost more to rebox and store the ammo
> >than to discard it.....
>
> And don't forget what they did off of Okinawa after WWII. The US Army
> had been amassing stuff for the invasion of Japan that never happened.
> After Japan surrendered it was obvious that the Army would be radically
> downsized since the war was (finally) over. Shipping all that stuff
> ANYWHERE, not to mention to the US, would have been enormously expensive
> and time consuming. So into the ocean it went. My dad was in the 503rd
> Airborne Rgt. in 1960 and was stationed there for quite a while. He was
> also a diver and they were forbidden to dive in certain lagoons due to
> the risk of entanglement on the wrecks + live ammo.
>
> I don't know if the Army did such things in the ETO, but with all our
> newly liberated unarmed friends around, we had an easy place to resell
> the stuff instead of shipping or trashing it. At least soft skin stuff
> like trucks, Jeeps, and Weasels.
>
> It is also my personal opinion that a lot of this stuff was never brought
> home for political/business reasons. How happy would Dodge, GMC, Ford,
> etc have been if all that stuff they made in 1944/45 came back home to a
> hungry civilian market? :-)
>
> Steve
>
> T24/M29/M29c Weasels x 7
> M274A4 MULE
> M43 Ambulance
>
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