Any idea who/which nation linished the US PROPERTY markings Brian? I ask because some of the Chinese stuff supplied to the VC was also cleaned of US and Canadianicon markings. Not very well I should add and by no means all of it. The strange thing is that there were many Inglis No1 pistols and these were pretty well intact.

Back to the dispsosal of US Lend Lease vehicles. I know a person locally, very old now, but he used to buy up some of the US lend lease stuff in the 50's and was able to sell it to the newly emerging Western Armies, specially Italyicon and Greece who were big buyers and good payers. A lot was only fit for spares but they needed spares too. But strangely, he never bought those DUKW thinggies or any other US amphibians because they were barred from export sale to virtually anyone. Maybe Uncle Sam was fearful of an invasion!