Million Dollar Point Story, ScubaDiving In Vanuatu

A Bizarre Legacy of the II. World War on the bottom of the ocean in Espiritu Santo. Read the story in the video subtitles 😉
At the conclusion of World War II all the millitary equipment was suposed to be shiped back to US.
Additionally, the War Department felt that a flood of surplus military trucks, tractors, bulldozers and other vehicles arriving back in the US would do nothing to reinvigorate the economy, if everyone was buying up surplus used equipment from the army. So all the equipment was destined to stay on Espiritu Santo.
The French, who were controlling this area of Vanuatu at the time, got wind of the decision and saw an opportunity to acquire the equipment for free.
The American’s offered everything at 6 cents in the dollar, but the French believing they would get it for nothing anyway following the American’s withdrawal, refused the offer.
A bizare turn of events
The Americans weren’t too impressed with France’s rejection of what they considered a very generous offer. But they knew the French were looking to exploit the whole situation.
So in a decision of pure spite and some would say complete madness, the American’s decided that if the French wouldn’t pay, then no one would have the equipment.
For two solid days, every piece of surplus equipment on Santo was transported down to the beach not far from Luganville and dumped into the sea.
What couldn’t be driven into the ocean under its own power, was pushed there by bulldozer, before the bulldozers themselves were driven in with rocks keeping the accelerators flat to the floor.
As a final gesture of goodwill, the Army engineers, blew up the temporary jetty Army Engineers had constructed that the trucks were driven off. Millions of dollars worth of equipment and stores were destroyed and a new name given to that area of the Santo coastline.
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