destruction of P-38's after Japanese surrender by vkoontz
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Factory fresh P-38's were destroyed after the Japanese surrender at Clark AFB, Philipines. They were chopped up and bulldozed into a ditch. And I think of the massive effort to resurrect the Glacier Girl...
Comments (10)
SeanE
gawd...and to think of the millions just one of these in flying condition would bring today...
zorares
What a waste! They should have at least sold them after stripping out their guns.
mughi3
makes me sick, such a beautiful aircraft, such a waste!
RadelBaluvar
A very interesting picture.
UVDan
A real waste. I was reading in Flight Journal recently about the huge numbers of planes scrapped after WW2. If I recall some were sold for the cost of the gas still in their tanks. I would have been there with my five hundred bucks to get a mustang, or P47, or P38, or Hellcat, or............ I loved reading about the Glacier Girl. Have you heard of the B29 Daryl Greenamayer tried flying out of Greenland called Kee Bird. I have to laugh at the average ranking which reads "needs work". You bet they need some work!! But at one time they were the top dog.
Buffalo1
@UVDan: They were using B-29s for target practice out at China Lake as late as the 1970s. A pity that Kee Bird didn't make it after all the effort to make her airworthy. I know a 15th AF P-38 pilot, but I don't intend to tell him about these photos. He'd be royally hacked.
Richardphotos
some of our not so smart dealings of the US government.
skyla824
THIS IS A PHOTO THAT I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. PRETTY NEAT STUFF
neiwil
Probably made sense at the time.....but this is SO WRONG!!!!.A different sort of lesson can be learned from this.
mtnman259
It was a very cool aircraft, and it was such a terrible demise! It's sad looking at them like that, but still... thanks for sharing!