Scrap Yard In New Guinea

Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:45 pm

This images was just posted on a different site. One about Model Cars!

It was taken from a 60's magazine, he did not mention which.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j258/ ... nkyard.jpg

Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:59 pm

I wonder how much of that stuff is still there.

Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:22 pm

Jesse...Wish you hadn't done that (or I hadn't looked). Makes ya' ill just to see that.

Mudge the nauseous :rolleyes:

Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:32 pm

Yeah, sucks to look at such a sight, but it happened because no one cared!

Apparently the image came out of a Horizon Magazine from the 60's

Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:38 pm

Oh, my! What a heartbreaking photo. . . :cry:

Anyone know what happened to all of those aircraft? Crushed? Buried?

Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:45 pm

I have read from a few sources that the Japanese got savvy to the scrap value in the 60's sometime and went on a big south-pacific scrapping binge. Not sure how true this is, but it would make some sense.

I'd sure like to spend an afternoon walking around that lot, with a couple of six packs, and of course a snake-bite kit...and maybe a spider-bite kit as well.

great (and sad) shot.

greg v.

Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:25 pm

Some time ago there was a link to a dutch site that had a lot of pics of the dump at Biak Island. There were large numbers of Lightnings, Liberators, Mitchels and more. According to the text, as far as a I can remember, most were scrapped by Australians, in the late 50's, early '60.
This may be the same location.

Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:10 pm

Ok, time to get the Time Machine working!

Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:11 pm

I count about 50 P-38's in the pile at the top of the photo, on the other side of the road!

Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:23 pm

no doubt slim pickings today in the 21 century :cry:

Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:56 pm

No other country should have a right to them. Thats american tax payer money there. Only us USA'ers should have had a right to them, as scrap or otherwise. And I'm sure such waste continues as we speak.
Yeah real sad.

Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:04 pm

How many different types of aircraft can be identified in the photo?
I see: P-38, A-20, B-25, C-47, P-61, P-47?, ???
bill word

Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:38 pm

Yes, thats Biak, off the northwestern coast of New Guinea, and is apparently just a portion of that boneyard. And just a short ways through the jungle was another boneyard, with over a thousand American Libs covered with vines. The planes sat there for years, slowly being overtaken by the jungle.

Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:48 pm

engguy wrote:No other country should have a right to them. Thats american tax payer money there. Only us USA'ers should have had a right to them, as scrap or otherwise. And I'm sure such waste continues as we speak.
Yeah real sad.

i agree that it is a massive waste of 1940's tax payers $ and i'm certain it continues to this day. while it isn't my $ i don't like to see it wasted.

as for only USA'ers having a right to them i'm all for that, on the condition that before you claim them you take back all of your unexploded ordinance left around the world over the last 60 years, clean up your nuclear testing sites in the pacific etc, take back and clean up after all your depleated uraniun projectiles sprayed everywhere your country has fought in the last 16? years.
while your at it close your military bases on foreign soil, take back your softdrinks, fast food chains, most of your music produced in the last 30+ years, all of your big budget movies, your TV shows, your drug culture, your gun culture, all the weapons given to "friends" so they could become enemies 10 years later.
don't forget your GM food and modified seeds. make your drug companies release thier grip on drugs designed to help save people. take the conditions off your aid to 3rd world countrys.
while we are on the topic feel free to take back nearly every car produced post ww2, subsidised grains etc.
oh i almost forgot your porrnn and it's surrounding culture

do this and sure most countrys in the world would be happy for you give the rights to the WW2 stuff you left littering the world (even though it was generaly signed over to the countrys where it sat).

end rant now.

henry.

btw feel free to attack australias actions over the last few years, i do.
i know this very computer i'm typing my rant on is based of stuff designed in the US, it's a nice tool but without it, i might get a bit more done.

Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:11 pm

OH...MY...GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

That is an amazing, and very sad, sight! :vom:

I think I'm truely going to be sick.

Im going to go off and cry now. :nuker: