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Post by Johnsamschulz » Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:57 am

The U.S. Army still has a lot of historic vehicles rusting away in storage areas. It is a shame nothing is being done to restore these historic vehicles.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by Ed Roberts » Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:55 am

Where and when was this photo taken? Thanks.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by W. Winget » Fri Mar 03, 2023 10:35 am

My bet is Anniston Army Depot where they send everything now for long term storage and/or destruction at whim. Likely returns from European base closures here.
Fortunately, the Halftrack wasn't named after a Confederate General elsewise there would have been a mandate to cut them all up by now.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by 70th Division » Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:58 pm

Johnsamschulz wrote:
Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:57 am
The U.S. Army still has a lot of historic vehicles rusting away in storage areas. It is a shame nothing is being done to restore these historic vehicles.the Bone yard.jpg
Hello,

Maybe we should get the people in Congress to pass a WW2 Historical Vehicle preservation law, offering them to the public, as the public paid for them,
before these all end up on a bombing range like so many before them !!
It is the least they could do in their leisure time !

When I was in Germany and talked with the German in charge of a DRMO sales office, he told us that as off them all US vehicles would be cut up, and not even sold to the public.
He said a WW2 German flack battery gun was turned in, and they took some pictures sitting in the seats, and then it was torched up.
He said that a base had a CCKW training chassis and engine, and told them if it was turned in, it would have to be cut up to comply with the new regulations at the time.
This was in 2008 or so.


Hope they can be saved, but will take congressional action asap, and a law protecting all WW2 vehicles .


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Re: Bone Yard

Post by clintm20 » Sat Mar 04, 2023 5:05 am

A wise man somewhere once said something like you can't save them all.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by Hammerhead » Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:46 am

OMG! Look at all those halftracks with all their original armor! I hope the poster will say when and where it was taken.

Reminds of the pictures of the Isrealis shipping 3000 Halftracks to be destroyed a number of years ago!!

Enough to make a grown man cry!
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by Ron D » Mon Mar 06, 2023 11:45 am

Johnsamschulz wrote:
Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:57 am
The U.S. Army still has a lot of historic vehicles rusting away in storage areas.
Yup, that's a pretty bold statement to make without backing it up and saying when and where the photo was taken.
I seem to recall seeing that photo in a much older post.
Could just as easily be on a farm in Arkansas as on government property.
Good for generating conversation I suppose...

Those trucks were probably all scrapped --- decades ago.
Any bets he'll ever say? Doubt it (or he'd have said when and where in the first place) --- to start the stampede.
Unless he got there first and bought them all? :lol:

Reminds me of the surplus "jeep in a crate" magazine ads....everybody needs a holy grail to chase and daydream about.

Every one that's scrapped makes the one you own that much more valuable.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by Ron D » Mon Mar 06, 2023 11:53 am

70th Division wrote:
Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:58 pm
Maybe we should get the people in Congress to pass a WW2 Historical Vehicle preservation law, offering them to the public, as the public paid for them, before these all end up on a bombing range like so many before them !!
It is the least they could do in their leisure time !
Hope they can be saved, but will take congressional action asap, and a law protecting all WW2 vehicles .
Best Regards,
Ray
Sure.
More fiddling while Rome burns is just what we need.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by 70th Division » Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:05 pm

Ron D wrote:
Mon Mar 06, 2023 11:53 am
70th Division wrote:
Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:58 pm
Maybe we should get the people in Congress to pass a WW2 Historical Vehicle preservation law, offering them to the public, as the public paid for them, before these all end up on a bombing range like so many before them !!
It is the least they could do in their leisure time !
Hope they can be saved, but will take congressional action asap, and a law protecting all WW2 vehicles .
Best Regards,
Ray
Sure.
More fiddling while Rome burns is just what we need.
Hello,

Well they seem to fiddle everyday, whether Rome is burning or not.
It is what they do, while usually doing nothing useful.

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Re: Bone Yard

Post by Ron D » Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:24 pm

70th Division wrote:
Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:05 pm
Hello,
Well they seem to fiddle everyday, whether Rome is burning or not.
It is what they do, while usually doing nothing useful.
Ray
Yup, draining the Treasury seems to be Job #1.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by 70th Division » Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:41 pm

Ron D wrote:
Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:24 pm
70th Division wrote:
Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:05 pm
Hello,
Well they seem to fiddle everyday, whether Rome is burning or not.
It is what they do, while usually doing nothing useful.
Ray
Yup, draining the Treasury seems to be Job #1.
Hello,
They could make money for the Treasury, by selling the large number of halftracks to the public, not let them be scrapped or become targets.
They could call it debt reduction :shock: .

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Re: Bone Yard

Post by Ron D » Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:59 pm

70th Division wrote:
Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:41 pm
Hello,
They could make money for the Treasury, by selling the large number of halftracks to the public, not let them be scrapped or become targets.
They could call it debt reduction :shock: .
Ray
I'm not sure, but you may not know your government very well, do you?
Make money for the treasury by selling them?
Really?

These are the same people who pay more to mint a nickel than the metal in it is worth.
In other words, the government doesn't "make money" selling anything --- once the bureaucracy gets involved each one probably would cost millions of dollars.

The only way the government "makes money" is by printing more of it.
We're probably better off buying stock in linen paper and ink.
Or collecting and smelting nickels for the scrap value. :lol:

Besides, we haven't yet determined these tracks still exist somewhere.... :lol:
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by DogDoc » Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:57 pm

Ron D wrote:
Mon Mar 06, 2023 11:45 am
Johnsamschulz wrote:
Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:57 am
The U.S. Army still has a lot of historic vehicles rusting away in storage areas.
Yup, that's a pretty bold statement to make without backing it up and saying when and where the photo was taken.
I seem to recall seeing that photo in a much older post.
Could just as easily be on a farm in Arkansas as on government property.
Good for generating conversation I suppose...

Those trucks were probably all scrapped --- decades ago.
Any bets he'll ever say? Doubt it (or he'd have said when and where in the first place) --- to start the stampede.
Unless he got there first and bought them all? :lol:

Reminds me of the surplus "jeep in a crate" magazine ads....everybody needs a holy grail to chase and daydream about.

Every one that's scrapped makes the one you own that much more valuable.
I wish these were on farm in Arkansas. They would practically be in my back yard then. I could waste every Sunday afternoon driving around looking for them.

If you look in the background, it does appear to be a military installation.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by 8683jb » Mon Mar 06, 2023 5:54 pm

Maybe not in the U.S.? The one in the foreground looks like it has French headlights.
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Re: Bone Yard

Post by Johnsamschulz » Mon Mar 06, 2023 11:04 pm

to ALCON

I took the picture on 1 March 2023 and posted it. If I get approval from the post Public Affairs Officer (PAO) then there will be an official story released on the bone yard. I hope to work with the CMH- U.S. Army Center of Military History (https://history.army.mil/about.html) to find a way to save these historic vehicles. If any of you want to contact your congressmen about providing these vehicles to museums, I will be glad to provide details.


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