WWII Corsair Cockpit Interior

[Peter Laidler]

When you see surviving vehicles, tanks and aircraft it makes you wonder what chance of fate looked kindly on that particular item to survive the gas axe. For instance, who exactly, personally signed-off that the last liberty ship should be preserved for the nation? And which particular person did the same for the top-scoring (but not quite as it later transpires) Lancaster that survives in London? Or that particular Corsair.......... Or ........

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[Colonel Enfield]

When you see surviving vehicles, tanks and aircraft it makes you wonder what chance of fate looked kindly on that particular item to survive the gas axe. For instance, who exactly, personally signed-off that the last liberty ship should be preserved for the nation? And which particular person did the same for the top-scoring (but not quite as it later transpires) Lancaster that survives in London? Or that particular Corsair.......... Or ........

Or the Short Solent Flying Boat at the Museum of Transport & Technology in Auckland, New Zealand...