GoKawiilList and Map of Active and Post-WWII Aircraft Boneyards and Storage Facilities
Military Aircraft Boneyards
Fighter boneyard at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, post World War II
The United States manufactured about 294,000 aircraft for WWII, and once peace was assured the military found itself with a huge surplus of aircraft.
Within a year of the end of the war, about 34,000 airplanes had been moved to 30 sales-storage depots, or "aircraft boneyards".
It was estimated a total of 117,210 aircraft would be declared surplus.
If a plane was not sold at boneyards such as those at Kingman AAF, Cal-Aero Field, and Walnut Ridge AAF, it was stripped of classified information, sliced up with guillotines, and melted in smelters into ingots.
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