Hi Listees,
I had a most interesting conversation with a former USMC Gunnery Sargent
yesterday. He was in on the invasion of Guam in 1944 and stayed on the
island until WW2 ended. He was the enlisted supervisor of disposal of
"surplus" MV's. Residents of Guam were allowed to buy jeeps for $300, but
GI's were not. Most of the jeeps had 20 miles on them. Most were unsold,
so he supervised driving them up to a cliff where they were pushed over
into the deepest of the deep. They didn't remove anything, but just pushed
them over....batteries....new tires...everything. He had so many to get
rid of that he had to request additional drivers to get them all up to the
disposal point. He also had to get rid of about 200 new halftracks (with
75mm guns on them) and amtracs. The SeaBees dug huge pits. The vehicles
(all new ones) were driven in and covered with dirt. I had seen some
articles in MV Mag about this, but meeting someone directly involved was
quite interesting.
dean
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Dean L. Kellogg, Jr., MD, PhD
Department of Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900
(210) 617-5311 FAX (210) 617-5312 e-mail:kelloggd@uthscsa.edu
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