Following World War II, US junkyards and surplus ... was a natural because it was an extra fuel tank attached to the bottom of a P-38 fighter plane. So it was already proven to to be aerodynamic.

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almost all the aircraft used to fight fires were retired or salvaged World War II aircraft. Tanks were strapped to the middle, and they were used in a very haphazard, provisional manner.

KURSK, August 23. /TASS/. A vintage World War II tank, which participated in a parade in Kursk, capsized while being loaded on a trailer, the press-service of the Western military district told ...

It's his collection of World War II-era war craft ... the Panzer IV Tank and having it join our Sherman tank and other historic military aircraft and vehicles at the Flying Heritage Collection." ...