Jeep Dump

[Festa]

You guys have probably seen em all before but for those who haven't i found these surfing BING Images.

What a waste!

Obviously to expensive to bring them back.

This is Okinawa Japan 1949 after the War
http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy270/Festa-1/Mitary%20Jeep%20Dumps%20After%20the%20Wars/jeep-cimetary-Okinawa-1949.jpg

http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy270/Festa-1/Mitary%20Jeep%20Dumps%20After%20the%20Wars/jeep-cemetary-Okinawa4.jpg

http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy270/Festa-1/Mitary%20Jeep%20Dumps%20After%20the%20Wars/jeepcimetaryinOkinawa1949-2.jpg

Just a few Bantam trailers :)
http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy270/Festa-1/Mitary%20Jeep%20Dumps%20After%20the%20Wars/jeep-trailer-cemetary-Okinawa-1949.jpg

http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy270/Festa-1/Mitary%20Jeep%20Dumps%20After%20the%20Wars/jeep-trailer-cemetary-Okinawa-1949-.jpg

Same Again after the Korean war.
http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy270/Festa-1/Mitary%20Jeep%20Dumps%20After%20the%20Wars/JeepsPUSAN1960-2.jpg

http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy270/Festa-1/Mitary%20Jeep%20Dumps%20After%20the%20Wars/JeepsPUSAN1960.jpg

[bigredtj]

One of my old customers told me the stories of how they dragged allot out to sea and dumped them after ww2, he said they weren't allowed to pull them apart but they used to steal the leaf springs to make fake samurai swords

[kitrino_tj]

very cool pictures, what a waste

[itchy]

Oh the humanity.
Got any more pics, top find!

[BennyWA]

eh, they're all lhd anyway.. :)

[carvesdodo]

Probably all got melted down and turned into mitsubishi jeeps .... lol

[TurboTJ]

damn brings a tear to my eye

[bruggz351]

:shock: Chr15t.... Thats unfathomable!!!

Agreed. What a waste. They woulda come back over hear as a early FJ to build the snowy project:rolleyes:

[Macca2801]

Wasnt one of the reasons for not repratriating them back to the states was to not "flood" the market with a vehicle that could upset an area of the market. ie their production was not economically viable, they were built on mass production lines and with, nearly, slave labour (any able bodied man/woman) and who could match that back in the states post wartime?

So rather than ruin sectors of the economy back home, the policy was to not return all the equipment and to make sure no-one else benefited from it..ie scrap/drown it.

Matt.

[Darius]

Don't know if it's true, but I have been told that they dumped heaps of stuff in Morton Bay (off Brisbane).

I came across a dump of shells when I was diving one time, mostly mortars and some bigger ones with pointy ends. No Jeeps though.

[Festa]

Oh the humanity.
Got any more pics, top find!

Here's a link to the site they came from, have a sniff around!

http://www.tahiti-pacifique.com/hobbies/Jeeps-what-bloody-waste.html

[TOYROX]

Don't know if it's true, but I have been told that they dumped heaps of stuff in Morton Bay (off Brisbane).

I came across a dump of shells when I was diving one time, mostly mortars and some bigger ones with pointy ends. No Jeeps though.

Plenty of shells were dropped at the "now" mouth of the port, which was a long way out all those years ago. The dredge sucks up stuff all the time as the port is extended. The guys that work there say you can hear them bouncing through the pipe.

USA government policy is Lend Lease. Once it goes to war ot does not come back.

[bonza]

many years ago my brother use to work in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
paid him a visit once and he took me out to an old WWII dump of old trucks, jeeps and all sorts of gear including thousands of 44 gallon drums. it was all rusted out and stuffed but it was amazing to see it.

I have also been told there is a large dump in a remote area of the Kimberly along the coast. have seen photos of it. apparently was a military base in case of Jap invasion. once the war was over they left everything there and went home