In the fifties, my father was reassigned from Norfolk, VA to Hawaii. He decided that the family would camp out from Norfolk to California. To fit out this expedition, he and I went to a warehouse on the Naval Base full of WWII stuff intended for the invasion of Japan. It was stuffed with brand new equipment. Kid in a candy store doesn’t begin to describe the wonder of that day. Tarps, life jackets, lanterns, canteens, and more were in never ending stacks of boxes.
I’m sure that this warehouse outfitted Army and Navy Stores for 20 years with occasional auctions at pennies on the dollar. Those warehouses were found on bases across the country.
Rough and Ready Island at Stockton, California was the prep base for the invasion of Japan.