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Originally posted by Shane Lovell
Ryan
My understanding is that in the 1950/60s wreck collection in Libya for scrap was a major income earner and most wrecks in the easy to get to places were collected.
Shane
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The Arabs are great scavengers and seldom leave anything of value in the desert. In 1999 I took a bus from Eilat, Israel to Cairo, Egypt and we drove across the Sinai and through the famous Mitla Pass, scene of much fighting in the 6 Day War. I had hoped to see some of the many tanks, aircraft, and vehicles that had been destroyed in the fighting but was disappointed to only see a partial set of tracks and an unidentifiable truck chassis protruding from the sand. Most everything else was either buried or recovered, I assume.