These American B-29s and assorted Navy torpedo bombers and trainers were collected together on Guam Island after World War Two and junked.

This row of derelicts at Davis-Monthan includes C-46 Commandos, a C-54 and KC-97s. Known as the Boneyard, the official name for the dump is the Military Storage and Disposition Centre (MASDC). This and the other Davis-Monthan photograph was taken in October last year.

Harvards at Tillsonburg, Ontario, in September 1970.

Australian-built Beauforts and Beaufighters in an Australian graveyard in 1948.

The world's largest aircraft collection is this one at Davis-Monthan. Here a row of Lockheed EC-121s await their fate.

Supermarine Swift F.2 with maintenance serial 7301 was originally WK241. It is seen dumped at RAF Halton in company with Meteors and Prentices in 1959.

A Geodetic graveyard in Oxfordshire in December 1945, where Vickers Wellingtons are seen awaiting conversion to ingots.

The famous Southend dump photographed by Flight in 1957. Some of the 252 obsolete RAF Prentices bought by Aviation Traders are seen in company with two Avro Tudors. Tudor 1 G-AGRI, minus wings, engines and rudder, languishes at the right of the picture. Most of the Prentices seen here were scrapped, although they were originally earmarked for civil conversion.

A trio of tired ex-RAF Proctor 4s await the axeman at Biggin Hill in 1959. The two aircraft in the background, NP355 and NP289, were earmarked for the British register as G-ANYW and G-AOAY.

Blackburn Velos G-EBWB, taking pride of place atop the scrap-yard at York Road, Leeds, in 1934. Another Velos, G-AAAX, can be seen in the background.