What happened to all the warplanes, tanks, etc after WWII?
Most of the U.S. inventory of aircraft and ships wound up being sold for scrap. The mostly prop-driven aircraft of WWII were outmoded anyway because of the development of jet aircraft, although some of the later prop aircraft such as the Navy’s F4U Corsair and USAAF’s P-51 served into the 1950s. Some aircraft were sold to foreign governments and a few to private individuals and companies. Transport aircraft such as the C-47 often found civilian buyers, but combat aircraft with their high fuel consumption. lack of cargo capacity and high maintenance costs usually had no useful civilian role. A few have survived in private hands, but most are gone. The Commemorative Air Force based in Midland-Odessa, Texas, probably is the most prominent organization devoted the preservation of WWII aircraft in flying condition. Visit their web site at http://www.commemorativeairforce.org/ to learn more. Not many German and Japanese aircr
