[Dark Wing]

>>From what I understood from my late and dearly departed
>>dad, a WWII vet who served in the SPT, the US Army
>>abandoned a lot of jeeps and other vehicles on some South
>>Pacific islands near and at the end of the war as it was
>>just not economical to ship them all back home.

In 1948 the USMC swept many of these islands for usable salvage equipment.

Under MacArthur's orders in 1949, 8th Army in Korea did the same.

Most of the vehicles used to fight the first year in Korea were those vehicles rebuilt by Japanese workers under contract to the US Army because anything new built in the USA after Inchon was being sent to Germany to rebuild the US Army there.

[Raebie]

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