The tiedown kits were prized, and seldom removed, as spotter planes often operated with advancing units, in pea patches, ... Patton husbanded AV gas, loved the effectiveness of his Maytag Messerschmitts, as armored could run on 115 octane, but not the reverse. Remember. many Shermans used aircraft developed radials.
These kits only weighed >30' I guess, in a long canvas bag, long threaded end 1/4" steel rods, swivel rings and an expanding arrowhead anchor on opposite end ... heaviest piece was clever cast iron sliding hammer/wrench install pipe which would leave just an inch of rod above ground to attach ring/and unscrew rod later.
All but expanded head would remove for reuse. Extras were in kit. Similar to this but rod, not cable in ground, and put in 3', rated at 1500' to get out of even sand!
It only took a 20mph gust to turn an empty Piper/T-craft into rubble, while three points would handle high windstorms.
I'd buy them from surplus stores for my sailplane X/C trips, and saved my birds a few times. I'd buy extra arrowhead ends for a nickel or so in quantity.
Three or four kits would secure even a B-24 in N.Africa sand!!!!
REALLY!
