Brize if memory serves me correctly, I was told, had an electrically heated all weather runway, the USAF put it in at great expense then tried to sell it to the UK when they handed it back, U.K. Plc thought well we will get it anyway so refused to cough up for it.
The USAF then drove a caterpillar with its ground cutting blade dropped down the side of the runway tearing all the wiring to the heaters out, thus rendering the system scrap and denying the RAF a freebie.
Similar they offered all the American fridges and furniture etc from the quarters for free, however the tax man wanted the tax paying on it all, so rather than get something for free from the USAF, and facing a bill, they dug a pit, crushed it and buried it all.
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