Tired of the same ole 'junk' for Xmas? ...

[Mark Allen M]

here's some more junk ... have a great Xmas ...

More here.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.or...hp?f=3&t=57153

[crusty old aviator]

Ah, yes, the detritus of war: think how better off we'd be if that money and development effort had been spent on peaceful purposes, but Hitler was greedy, and that's how one greedy person can affect all of us. Remember that whenever you enter a voting booth...

Everything in these photos was eventually dug up by locals, cut up and sold as scrap to visiting Japanese ships, who would transport the piles back to Japan for smelting. It was actually an authorized activity, although an unofficial part of the Marshall plan. It provided the islanders with an income source, and kept the economy growing in Japan: all those aerial swords, melted into productive, peacetime products.

War is so hellish, that as soon as it's over, people want to just put the hell behind them and convert everything that reminds them of it into something hopeful. That is why there are so few examples remaining of German, Italian, and Japanese WWII aircraft. The victors got to keep their toys, but very few of them remain, too, as war is hellish for combat vets and their families on both sides. With the distance of time, it's easy to forget just how hellish it was, and so we spend millions to restore these old gals in an effort to remember those who fell for our freedom. If only there was a way to equally remember the hellish conditions they died in. A freshly restored warbird, resplendent in its polished aluminum and Imron, represents a glorious past that existed only in the minds of those who were never there. What are the chances of a dirty, grimy, bloody, shot up, and patched together warbird receiving a Lindy? What are the chances the owner would be asked to move his old girl off Wittman Field...