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Show 1 were made available by the sale, Joseph. S. Willes, regional director direc-tor of the WAA said today. The bombers, fighters and other tactical planes, which served their mission during the war, were not suitable for civilian, use, and have been standing idle at air-fields throughout the west, including Kingman, Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Ontario, California; Walnut Ridge, Arkansas; and Clinton, Oklahoma. Remaining in a surplus status are some 3,500 .tactical planes, which already are being crushed to meet committments for scrap. SURPLUS PLANES SOLD AS SCRAP One of the biggest steps in reconversion re-conversion of war surplus material into peacetime use was taken this week when War Assets Administration's Adminis-tration's stock of surplus combat aircraft were almost wiped out by a huge sale of nearly 21,000 war planes for scrap to five companies com-panies for approximately 6,600,-000. 6,600,-000. More 'than 200 million pounds of aluminum alloy and otner metals met-als critically needed for housing and many types of civilian goods |