1945 Mario Piatelli is appointed a War Assets Administration Sales Officer, in Honolulu, in charge of liquidating millions of tons of WWII surplus Army, Navy and Marine equipment.

1948 Piatelli Company is formed in Honolulu, buying and selling heavy construction equipment, ships and marine salvage.

   Hawaii, 1945
 
Aleutian Isands, 1949   1949 The Piatelli Company opens a large salvage operation on Adak Island in the Aleutians. Over the next several years, the company salvages and ships thousands of tons of heavy equipment and scrap steel to buyers in the U.S. and around the world.
 
1955 Piatelli relocates to Southern California, applying his experience liquidating heavy equipment to industrial auctions in Los Angeles; associating with the nationally prestigious industrial auction firms of Milton J. Wershow Co. and Max Rouse & Sons.   Los Angeles, 1955
 
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