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Found: Dozens, maybe hundreds of WWII Studebaker Trucks
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Found: Dozens, maybe hundreds of WWII Studebaker Trucks
Mike O'Handley, Cat Herder Third Class
Kenmore, Washington
hausdok@msn.com
'58 Packard Hawk
'05 Subaru Baja Turbo
'71 Toyota Crown Coupe
'69 Pontiac Firebird
(What is it with me and discontinued/orphan cars?)Tags: None
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And if you tried to salvage them, the government would step in and claim them as gov't property...HTIH (Hope The Info Helps)
Jeff
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
Note: SDC# 070190 (and earlier...)
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There are also "several" areas in the Pacific and Atlantic that thousands of tons of munitions were dumped, now 70 years later, is creating an environmental nightmare. A lot of these munitions were dumped not too far off shore. Experienced divers have been detonating many of these piles.
There is one island in the Pacific, (forgot the name) that when you do a walking tour of the island, you MUST stay on the marked paths! as they are still digging up all sorts of bombs, land mines and unexploded munitions. The photos I've seen of piles and piles of the formentioned is unreal.
Jim"We can't all be Heroes, Some us just need to stand on the curb and clap as they go by" Will Rogers
We will provide the curb for you to stand on and clap!
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Probably GM trucks as the Studebakers were mostly provided to other countrys.
Millions of dollars of supplies were dumped. To bring them back could have stalled the economy. One figure that sticks in my mind is that 5% of one day production of explosives was a normal years use.
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I think most Americans are unaware of the scars of the 20th centuries two great wars because the activity happened elsewhere. Have read that each year in Germany alone, 5000 unexploded bombs are defused or detonated and every major European nation have personnel on the payroll for just that purpose. Another estimate is it will be 100 years before European officials are comfortable that 'most' of the unexploded munitions will have been found or inert...
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In and around the beaches of Normandy every spring, the local farmers find unexploded munitions in their fields.
Special collection teams collect these items to be disposed of.
Amazing that after all these years these items are still being found!
It boggles the mind!sigpic1957 Packard Clipper Country Sedan
"There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer"
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle
"I have a great memory for forgetting things" Number 1 son, Lee Chan
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In one particular battle in World War I (Messines), the British dug 22 mineshafts under German lines and packed them full of explosives to be set off to start the attack. Only 19 of the mines (some with as much as 95,000 lbs of explosives) were detonated and the location of the other two were lost. One of the mines exploded in the mid-50s after a lightning strike and the other has never accurately been found...video of one exploding mine is below:
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In addition to all the vehicles and machine tools, large numbers of brand new airplanes, mostly fighters and some bombers, were pushed off cliffs into the ocean at several Pacific islands. I have never believed the nonsense about these airplanes and vehicles "devastating the U. S. economy", that is just absurd. Most of the trucks were not suitable for civilian use except in primitive areas, and could have been very useful to people in war ravaged areas like the Philippines, Okinawa, and various Asian areas where we were developing military bases, and could have been traded for farm goods or just for labor.
An example of the benefits of using the surplus airplanes would be the hundreds of C-47s (DC-3) and some C-46s that were surplused and allowed small companies to operate cargo and short haul airlines, some eventually becoming profitable enough to purchase newer airplanes.
An interesting and little known episode concerns the Packard Merlin, which was a Rolls Royce Merlin produced under license and used to power the P-51 Mustang fighters. I think there is little doubt that England would have fallen to the Nazis if we had not provided huge quantities of ships, airplanes, vehicles including tanks, advanced radars, guns, ammunition, bombs, oil, clothing and food, not to mention all the thousands of Americans who died in the cause. And yet, in the late 1940s, when thousands of P-51s were being scrapped, a small number were sold on the surplus market, some used for air racing, airshows, and even a handful for recreational flying, the British government had the audacity to file a complaint with our State department , at the behest of Rolls Royce, insisting that those Merlin powered airplanes should not be sold to civilians because the license was for military use! One can only guess what sort of colorful language Harry Truman might have said about that.Trying to build a 48 Studebaker for the 21st century.
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Originally posted by doug View PostProbably GM trucks as the Studebakers were mostly provided to other countrys.
Millions of dollars of supplies were dumped. To bring them back could have stalled the economy. One figure that sticks in my mind is that 5% of one day production of explosives was a normal years use.
Hundreds of Studebaker US6 duce-and-a-half's were used in the construction of the Alcan hwy and many were just left on the side of road if they wouldn't start or run. Having been to Alaska in the winter time if you didn't leave the engine running all night long, it wouldn't start in the morning even with anti freeze. The only way around this would be if the engine had an electric block heater, which the US6 did not.
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One of my bosses years ago worked on a supply ship heading for the pacific when the war ended. When they received orders to turn around and come home, they were told to dump their cargo. He told me dozens of jeeps & trucks went over the side as well as lots of crates of spare parts.
There's a ww2 movie that was filmed in Russia back in the 50's and in one of the attack scenes, you see T34 tanks running over several Studebaker US6 trucks which were painted to look like german vehicles.....heartbreaking....
Mike S
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Originally posted by 48skyliner View PostIn addition to all the vehicles and machine tools, large numbers of brand new airplanes, mostly fighters and some bombers, were pushed off cliffs into the ocean at several Pacific islands. I have never believed the nonsense about these airplanes and vehicles "devastating the U. S. economy", that is just absurd. Most of the trucks were not suitable for civilian use except in primitive areas, and could have been very useful to people in war ravaged areas like the Philippines, Okinawa, and various Asian areas where we were developing military bases, and could have been traded for farm goods or just for labor.
An example of the benefits of using the surplus airplanes would be the hundreds of C-47s (DC-3) and some C-46s that were surplused and allowed small companies to operate cargo and short haul airlines, some eventually becoming profitable enough to purchase newer airplanes.
An interesting and little known episode concerns the Packard Merlin, which was a Rolls Royce Merlin produced under license and used to power the P-51 Mustang fighters. I think there is little doubt that England would have fallen to the Nazis if we had not provided huge quantities of ships, airplanes, vehicles including tanks, advanced radars, guns, ammunition, bombs, oil, clothing and food, not to mention all the thousands of Americans who died in the cause. And yet, in the late 1940s, when thousands of P-51s were being scrapped, a small number were sold on the surplus market, some used for air racing, airshows, and even a handful for recreational flying, the British government had the audacity to file a complaint with our State department , at the behest of Rolls Royce, insisting that those Merlin powered airplanes should not be sold to civilians because the license was for military use! One can only guess what sort of colorful language Harry Truman might have said about that.
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A previous Co-Worker was in Vietnam and he recalled how sickened he was when they were told to dispose of the helicopters and planes off the aircraft carrier he was stationed on. During the last week, when they were evacuating large numbers of refugees, they could take either cargo or people, so they used end-loaders to push the helicopters off the side of the ship.
As soon as a Huey would land, the people would unload, and then they pushed it off the ship.
That was the first I had heard of such a thing, and apparently it is common in every war. Seems like a huge waste, not to mention pollution. I guess the gubment can do it, but God forbid if I drop a snowmobile into a lake............Dis-Use on a Car is Worse Than Mis-Use...
1959 Studebaker Lark VIII 2DHTP
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