An interesting one I found was a request from the Australian Air Force to the UK Government for clarity on who owned the remaining 65 MKV Spitfires left in Australian service December 1945 as they wanted to scrap them.
Numerous letters and reminders between London and Canberra finally produced an answer nearly a year later that the British couldn't care less and the Australians could do what they liked with them (seeing the Australians had paid for them in the first place!)
It took a year to sort out a handful of obsolete aircraft - luckily we had no billion dollar Lend Lease type arrangement with UK or we would still be talking about it.
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31-10-16, 06:34
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