DESTRUCTION OF U.S. EQUIPMENT
Condemned by Soldiers (10.40 pm.) NEW YORK. Dec. 25. Soldiers returning from India arc loud in '■ondemnation of the deliberate destruction of Americanproduced equipment, says the “Herald Tribune.” They claim that new C 46 transport planes arc being destroyed and old planes, which are good enough to transport soldiers home, are .cing blown to bits by 5001 b ..ombs. Servicemen’s watches are being crushed by steamrollers. costly instruments arriving by air express are being smashed with hammers and jeeps are sunk in lakes or crushed. The soldiers challenged the Army claim that only useless equipment was being destroyed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23392, 26 December 1945, Page 5
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