Photo from Air Service
AMERICAN AIRPLANE WRECKAGE
Photo from Air Service
FUEL FOR THE BONFIRE
The condemned airplanes then passed from crew to crew, who dismantled them. All miscellaneous metal parts were stripped out and sent to the quartermaster depots for sale as junk metal. Engines were removed and saved, as were also propellers, landing gears, wheels, tires, axles, cowls, gas tanks and oil tanks, controls, instruments, radio apparatus, machine guns, bomb racks, and many other serviceable articles. Even complete wings, when in good condition, were removed and packed for shipment to the United States. The remaining débris, consisting of little more than the highly inflammable wooden construction members and dope-covered wing fabric, was piled in great heaps and burned. More than 2,300 airplanes were thus disposed of.
Photo by Signal Corps
GERMAN LOCOMOTIVE TAKEN OVER BY A. E. F. ENGINEERS
