Dunno but some priceless stuff there!
Here are some more aircraft at (I think) the same airfield.
Not any guesses for a corn field in the middle of Indiana...I'm shocked
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Kimpo Field, KoreaOriginally Posted by Curtis P40
Freeman Field is a fascinating place. It's where most aircraft ended up after Wright Field was done with them.
That's always the shame of it. These priceless (now) warbirds,....either US, Japanese, German, or British aircraft that went to the scrap heap after WWII. If only someone or gov. agency had the foresight to keep a few dozen of each airplane afterwards for posterity's sake. I'm not talking about building a special hangar to hold onto these aircraft for the next sixty years or so,....the Japanese and German aircraft could have easily been shipped to a desert area in Arizona,....secure some tarps on them....and leave them. Eventually,...parcel these aircraft out (at a tidy profit too) to various air museums throughout the US. And let them fix them up. Most museums would love to get their hands on these scarce as hen's teeth fighters and bombers from the WWII era. (Yes,...I know governments are not into keeping onto things,...just the efficiency of getting rid of things.)
..."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -Jim Elliot
Better then than now. It is now official US government policy to scrap all military aircraft before allowed to be acquired by civilians! They will be held in the boneyard for spare parts collection or sold to a foreign nation on the US government purchase list, or scrapped.
Unless that policy changes, the only museums in the world that will display surplus US military aircraft will be museums run by the US military branches.
At least at the end of World War II, a private citizen could actually purchase surplus aircraft, and many did.
Ken
I think you're all missing something. The U.S., and indeed much of the world, had just left a period of time where most manufactured goods existed purely for the war effort. No automobiles were manufactured in the U.S. During the war for example. People gave up their pots and pans to support the war effort. To post war planners, these aircraft, and the thousands and thousands of others that literally littered the world represented nothing more than raw material.
of course, now we would like to have a few of these.....but back then we'd rather have a decent car.
i do agree with Ken that current policy from DoD is foolish in the extreme. Frankly there are very few people who can afford to operate and maintain surplus military aircraft, so where's the risk?
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