WWII's Forgotten War Machines: Surplus Vehicle Boneyards
A vast array of surplus armored vehicles in storage at a U.S. facility, 1946, awaiting their fate.
A monumental pile of 18 million pounds of scrap brass at a U.S. Army depot, salvaged from unused equipment in 1946.
Kingman Air Force Base in Arizona, where an estimated 5,500 aircraft were stored and eventually scrapped between 1945 and 1946.
Rows of obsolete M3A1 Light tanks sit abandoned in a vast U.S. Army depot, 1946.
Surplus military motorcycles in England, bundled in groups of five, prepared for sale as scrap.
Hundreds of surplus military motorcycles in England are grouped together, destined for the scrapyard.
Mighty heavy bombers from WWII await disassembly at Kingman Air Force Base in Arizona, 1947.
Engines are carefully removed from mothballed planes at Kingman Air Force Base, signaling the end of their service in 1947.
A towering pile of aluminum is all that remains of a once-proud aircraft at Kingman Air Force Base, 1947.
An impressive fleet of 800 military Jeeps awaits auction at a storage facility in England, 1946.
Armored vehicles, their wartime duties concluded, sit in vast storage at a U.S. facility in 1946.
Numerous armored vehicles packed together in storage at a U.S. facility, post-WWII, 1946.
A powerful American-made tank repurposed for civilian life, now pulling a plow on a farm.
