[pabianice]

After WW I, the Army piled-up 1,600 American airplanes and set them on fire rather than ship them back to the U.S. They abandoned most of their animals. I had a picture of an Army horse, abandoned in knee-deep mud, dying. Horrible.

When the US Army Air Corps then asked for new planes, Coolidge reportedly said, "Buy one and let them take turns flying it."

[Owl558]

“After WW I, the Army piled-up 1,600 American airplanes and set them on fire rather than ship them back to the U.S.”

I remember reading about planes being pushed off the backs of carriers on the journey home after WWII. Heck, there’s still leftover Civil War kit out there.