You make a good point Franek. There was a frenzy of dumping and scrapping long before the 60s. All the lease-lend kit had to be paid for or scrapped. Not a chance for the former unless it had post war use (such as DC-3s) so overboard it went (literally often, and the immense amount of left over ordnance certainly did). The contents of Bletchley Park were destroyed on Churchill's direct order, the exceptions going to Cheltenham for Cold War purposes. Lesser kit filled the ubiquitous Government Surplus stores in every town for many years.
I suppose though that log books hit a particular nerve here. We all know the effort and sheer slog that went into filling our own. That some apparatchik should take it upon themselves to consign all that service, all that record of duty done, all that history, to the flames simply because of the shelf space it occupied is painful for any aircrew concerned with our heritage.
That is why the personal testimony of those who served is so important. The aircraft they flew are long gone, the records of their war are often gone, but their memories remain with them, or those they have entrusted with their stories. Threads like this one and the History Forum's Gaining an RAF Pilots Brevet in WWII are valuable and historic records in their own right. History is greatly served by those who have thus contributed to them. As Danny42C so often reminds us, time is not on our side:-
Gaining An R.A.F Pilots Brevet In WW II