Huge quantities of surplus military equipment was dumped at the end of the war.
Not to make room for returnees, but because a peacetime economy could not
sustain that level of inventory, and demilitarisation costs money. We have
evidently seen different newsreels.
I did point out that this was not analogous to our situation in cause. The
effect on those now interested in those aircraft is, however, the same as the
Oly inventory policy is on us. That's apples and apples.
Julian
> from: plp@xxxxxxxx
> date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:43:04
> to: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> subject: Re: [OM] Discontinued lenses
>
> >How do the "warbird" community feel about those newsreels of
> >planes being pushed off aircraft carriers into the Pacific,
> >for example?
>
> The only newsreels I remember are of helicopters being pushed
> off the deck to make room for more people from Saigon during
> the 1975 Vietnam evacuation. The military might have pushed
> aircraft off the deck right after the termination of WWII, but
> only to make room for personnel returning from the front.
> Talk about comparing apples and oranges.
>
>
> Pete
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