Later, Barney walks us to this jungle bone yard. Here, amongst jeep motors, axles, scoop loaders, are which seemed hundreds of Landing Craft that the Americans, using torches, cut in half so that they were no longer serviceable, and stacked these American Made tools of war thirty to fifty feet high in an incredible pile of iron and steel. There were aircarft engines, props, naval craft, landing craft, vehicles, some with a scant amount of rubber tires attached to them, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of war scrap, left to disolve on the island of Muda.
Barney went on to tell us that this was only one of two majors dumps left by the Americans. We did not see the other, but he said that to this day, the locals go to the fuel dump and get oil for their chain saws. According to Barney, "thousands" of barrels were left with Petrol, Diesel, and various oils, in drums of course. The locals pump out of them, but if they attempt to move them, the rust wins, and the contents eventually just drain out of the drums. Seems a bit, well, bad for the environment, wouldn't you think?
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