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An interesting but very sad website. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of aircraft sold and scrapped here in the U.S. there were numerous sites around the world where aircraft were not flown back to America, but were scrapped in place; in the PTO aircraft were either dumped offshore or were parked in long trenches and covered by bulldozers. I can remember seeing C-82's, BT-13's, and T-6's parked in the grass behind the aprons at the San Antonio Municipal Airport awaiting sale and/or disposal in the 50's. Amazing that Paul Mantz bought almost 500 aircraft in one purchase; he kept eleven, drained the others of their avgas, which he sold, and then sold the remaining aircraft for scrap. If only Paul Allen had been alive with his fortune back then, or if Hap Arnold's wishes for a postwar military aviation museum had been followed... Mike https://www.airplaneboneyards.com/post-wwii-military-airplane-boneyards.htm
