I did a quick search but didn’t find anything. Other than realizing they would have been Harley Davidsons, not Indians. (IIRC they were also rumored to have sidecars as well.)
Might be true. It was guys in the motor pool telling me about it. Of course it might have started out when some 18-year old newbie back in 1949 was complaining about how boring things were, and his boss in the motor pool told him the yarn.
“Yep - in the fall of ‘45 we just dumped them in. A guy with a shovel could probably still find them. I’m guessing the pit was about even with the north end of Hangar B, and pretty close to the woods.”
Snipe hunting..................
No motor bikes in Shemya. The story is P-38s. They are either inside the old runway triangle or they loaded them on a barge and dumped them in the ocean.