Chevrolet C60L - in the desert of Libya

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by sapper740
The Arabs are great scavengers and seldom leave anything of value in the desert. In 1999 I took a bus from Eilat, Israel to Cairo, Egypt and we drove across the Sinai and through the famous Mitla Pass, scene of much fighting in the 6 Day War. I had hoped to see some of the many tanks, aircraft, and vehicles that had been destroyed in the fighting but was disappointed to only see a partial set of tracks and an unidentifiable truck chassis protruding from the sand. Most everything else was either buried or recovered, I assume.

Yet, in 1984, I flew over the Mitla Pass on a Saudia flight from Jeddah to Cairo...there were many wrecks evident...burnt out hulks as far as one could see.