Horrible Nightmare....Willys

[Rbertalotto]

At the end of WWII, hundreds of acres of closely parked jeeps in Okinawa junkyard.

Since they would depress the auto industry if sold, they were all bulldozed into the sea. Trucks too. Thousands and thousands of them.



And trailers too!



If only we could!



We don't need no stink'n HiLift jack!

 

[68camaro]

Interesting, thanks for sharing....along the same line kinda, growing up my friends and I trashed, abused and junked many muscle cars that we assumed were junk only to realize today they would bring big bucks...

 

[Buddha.]

Cash for clunkers?

 

[b dkw1]

My father was stationed in France after WW2, His job was to load Jeeps and other stuff on to a barge and dump it a couple miles off shore.

 

[shortbus4x4]

Growing up we had a family friend who was stationed in Italy guarding a supply depot at an airfield when the war ended. He said they buried thousands of spare airplane parts, just dug big holes with dozers and pushed the stuff in. Look at some of the pictures of the stuff the US supplied for the war and it boggles the mind at the sheer quantities. You can still buy some NOS parts for WWII vehicles that were made in and have been stored ever since the period of 1942-1945.

 

[billiebob]

We still do this today in places like Afghanistan. Burying, burning everything we don't want to pack out.

 

[vintageracer]

Let's go git em!

They're still there.

 

[billiebob]