rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (04/19/91)
From: rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET Hi, mil-dot-dudes. It's quiz time. During WW2, there was an Army Air Base outside my hometown. I remember fighter planes doing dog-fights above the town, still. The property on one side of the base was my aunt's dairy. Some Army officers approached her on several occassions and made this offer: They wanted any sick, lame or dead cows, horses, goats and pigs, etc. They provided hauling them away. They were also known to buy from other ranchers, etc. and from the nearby farmer's market. When the base was deactivated in '45, we made numerous visits into the property. We saw what they did with the animals... The main airstrip was lined with small open enclosures covered with chicken screen wire... filled, by then, with the bones, rotting hides, and skulls of the carcasses, still reeking(sp?). In central Florida, your ordinary dead animal out on the range is gonna attract the buzzards. I think they're hazardous to arriving or departing aircraft. This is not your heated landing strip up North, where you have to drive off the napping polar bears.... So, the question is.... what were they doing, by/with all this? Leave it to me for the crazy questions: wooden bullets, leaf- spring crossbows, PUFF-TMD, etc. Anyone got any ideas? Ask your ex-aviator Dad or Uncle. that's -OWARI- from GLOWWORM-7-9-4 best regards, rbeville@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM Bob Beville, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR 97077