I don't see why they scrapped that stuff. Is it like someone said: "yeah, none of this will be historically important in 50 years. Crush it, Dave!"
I met a seafire pilot 10 or so years ago,
he said the saddest thing he saw was all the planes getting pushed over the side of the carrier when returning to UK
they where not allowed to take anything from them either, even the beautifully crafted watches that where in the cockpit he said ( I think he wanted one)...
such a shame
<S> Jimmy
Edit: Great vid waffle <S> thanks