Peter Ford once dropped in at the Canadian Army Depot in London, Ontario in the 1980's and met a Commisionaire who had worked at the Depot for a number of years in the 1950's and 1960's. He told Peter that on many occasions, he had been detailed to dispose of items that, for whatever reason the military did not want flowing through Crown Assets. They used to be taken to some sort of range in the area, where they were either burned or buried. One trip to this range involved boxes of brand new CMP and other World War Two equipment manuals that were all burned.
I have heard of a lot of surplus aircraft being burned after the war somewhere in Alberta as well. That was probably back when War Assets was in charge of disposal. Recently also saw a number of photos of the RAF torching surplus Mosquitoes in Egypt at the end of the war, and now how many of those are still flying?
David
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