By the end of the war the US was building so many aircraft so quickly that by the time we realized we had enough we had to many! Thousands of aircraft were built rolled our of the factory and parked only to be scrapped. My father when discharged from the Army enrolled in college on the GI bill and got a job at a navy base with a scrapper. He told me you could buy a brand new in the crate Pratt and Whitney engine for $175. Aristotle Onassis built his fortune on liberty ships bought for pennies on the Dollar.
Thousand up votes thanks that’s awsome.