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P-38's buried at Clark......

Posted by Tony on Wed Mar 27, 2002 07:08:05 AM

Well, I heard the rumours, nice to find a story from someone who took part.....

http://home.worldonline.dk/~winthrop/stanwood.html
Stans e-mail address is pilotww2@aol.com


After the war was finished, I was still in the Philippines. We were flying 51s and 47s but still had a number of 38s on the field. I remember ferrying what were basically brand new 38s down to Clark Field and then taxiing them through a field to a huge hole where they were bulldozed into and burned. Some of these planes had less than 10 hours on the form one. They all had full gas tanks and all instruments. They could have been purchased for one hundred dollars ($100). The gas alone would have been worth that. The instruments could have been salvaged if a person didn't want to keep the plane. How sick do you think I feel today, when there are very few left in the world and now would sell for close to, if not more than, $1,000,000. I did take one of the control wheels out and brought it back home with me. Should have had the whole plane

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