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Yesterday afternoon I was listening to WOWO radio (1190 AM) and they had Dean
Kruse of Kruse International (Kruseinternational.com) on talking about the big car
auction event in Auburn, IN this weekend. Dean also talked about the construction
of the new WWII air power museum that is being constructed on 400+ acres of ground
west of the present Kruse Auction site. I had heard through a friend that Kruse
had purchased a very large private WWII Airplane collection that was located near
the Battle of the Bulge site in Belgium, some time ago. (Dean mentioned that it
would fill two cargo ships!) During the radio interview (aka pitch for the
weekend auction and show) Dean Kruse mentioned that he was having some problems
getting the equipment and planes they had purchased into the US. He joked that
the Defense department was concerned that someone might start their own private
war with all of the equipment. Apparently besides the Aircraft, there is a large
amount of ground equipment and that is being hung up by the existing problems you
are all aware of. Dean talked about how most of the WWII equipment that was used
in Europe was left there, etc.
Dean Kruse said that a resolution of Congress was necessary in order to get around
these problems and he spoke as if he was actually making progress on this
situation. Last summer, Kruse International was bought out by Ebay.com so they
have the cash and clout to get some lawmakers to bend the rules for them so they
can go ahead with their huge WWII museum/show place/hotel complex/convention area.
So now you know where some of this new found "flexibility" may be coming from.
Perhaps those in the know, can piggyback onto the Kruse situation and make the
rules change for good?
Good Luck,
Dave
RKiser8375@aol.com wrote:
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> The U.S. State Department Under-Secretary John Holum is considering changing
> the current
> policy which prohibits importing military vehicles of U.S. origin. Your help
> could make it
> possible to import some military vehicles which have been kept out of the
> U.S. for 50 years!
>
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