Steve Allen
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>Anyway, during WW II much heavy equipment was flown and shipped into the
>South Pacific to build airstrips on the islands and coral atolls. After
>the war, the brass in charge made the executive decision that it would cost
>too much to return all this equipment to the U.S. They also didn't want
>the equipment abandoned, because "The native islanders would appropriate
>them and use them." (And we can't have THAT, can we?) So orders were
>given to fire up the machines and drive them over the highest cliff into
>the ocean. One atoll had a place called "Million Dollar Point", where
>supposedly millions of dollars worth of dozers, graders, scrapers, trucks
>and tractors were dumped into the ocean.
>
>
>Richard
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>
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>Richard & Judy Walker
>Irvine, California
>rick427@primenet.com
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