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burying aircraft was not a new concept at the end of the war , the Americans disposed of a large number of aircraft just outside Flagstaff AR by digging 2 one mile trenches and taxing the aircraft into these and then dozing the dirt over top , all that remained were the tails sticking out of the dirt, C-47, C-46, B-24 and B-17 aircraft, now knowing how well items were crated during the war a dozer moving dirt over these crates would not bother them much , remember that these crates would have been made to multi stack in the hold of a Liberty ship , the last thing the allies wanted at that point was more aircraft, remember Kingman AZ , B-24 aircraft in India being chopped up and left and when India gained independence they put a good number back together and flew them for years, this is where all the B-24's flying today came from including the one in Ottawa, here in Canada the RCAF sold P-40's out of Pat Bay BC for $75.00 ea.and most of the flying P-40's in the US have CDN history, look up photos for Chino CA at the end of the war and see what happened to the P-40, P-39, P-38's ,stacked like cordwood,it would also depend on who paid for these aircraft ,lendlease money?and the allies did not want just anyone to have these weapons.
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