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Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: Beowolff
Date: April 3, 2019, 11:59 am
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Here we go! Perfect! Look at that ROW of perfectly spaced
fighters just begging to be strafed! D'oh! ??? Nice looking
pic though, even in B&W...pretty clear... and check out the
runway/buildings/etc in the background. Good food for
mission/map builders.
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/NFfzpxwY/8233071039-6b10a64cd1-b.jpg
Whoops! Some unfortunate German pilot had a slip-up... ;)
Interesting photo, doesn't appear to be any massive damage so
likely they were able to hoist it out of the ditch, do some
small repairs and get it right back into service for the
Luftwaffe. Take a closer look at the terrain around the
plane...and way in the background, the hangers/buildings and
their construction and design. Supposedly this is a Dutch
airfield. This is the caption on the pic:
Numerous Luftwaffe aircraft crashed at Dutch airports during
take-off or landing as it was on June 3, 1941
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Nice shot of a transport taking off... can't make much out about
the strip or field but is a STARK and BLEAK showing of the
crud/wreckage/junk AROUND the actual strip itself... metal
pipes, poles, gravel piles, wash-outs, dead-ish looking grass,
etc. Reality as it really was.
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/hvvX8hpv/8233072499-c97c951671-b.jpg
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Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: Beowolff
Date: April 4, 2019, 7:58 am
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Nadzab_Airfield_-_New_Guinea Doesn't really look like any of
OUR ingame airfields does it?
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Nadzab_Airfield_-_New_Guinea.jpg
Caption only said USMC Aviation in the Philippines during WW2 so
I have no idea 'where' in the Philippines (Maybe a field on
Leyte?) it was. Very interesting field though...notice the
ocean 'right up to' the edge of the strip! Also, that TALL
mountain range on the far side of it...directly inline with the
strip (sort of dangerous, eh?)
HTML https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-AvPhil/img/USMC-M-AvPhil-p41.jpg
Yet another unknown strip... those (I believe...again my
eyesight is terrible) are Spitfires taking off...and the note
below the pic says Australian War Memorial so it's safe to say
those are Aussie planes and an Aussie strip...but where? New
Guinea perhaps? Very overgrown along the far side of that
strip, eh?
[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEHcKhuWMAEcjjM.jpg:large[/img]
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Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: greybeard
Date: April 4, 2019, 5:26 pm
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> Caption only said USMC Aviation in the Philippines during WW2
so I have no idea 'where' in the Philippines...
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HTML https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-AvPhil/img/USMC-M-AvPhil-p41.jpg
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TANAUAN AIRSTRIP, seven miles south of crowded Tacloban,
furnished desperately-needed space for U.S. planes. All Marine
squadrons on Leyte moved there, 23-27 December 1944. [Source:
HTML http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-AvPhil/USMC-M-AvPhil-2.html]
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> Yet another unknown strip... those ... are Spitfires taking
off...and the note below the pic says Australian War Memorial so
it's safe to say those are Aussie planes and an Aussie
strip...but where?
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[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEHcKhuWMAEcjjM.jpg:large[/img]
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1943-03-24. DARWIN. SPITFIRES TAKES OFF TO INTERCEPT JAPANESE
RAIDERS. (NEGATIVE BY H. TURNER).[Source:
HTML https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C33841]
Miracles of the Google search by images... ;)
#Post#: 468--------------------------------------------------
Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: Beowolff
Date: April 6, 2019, 4:40 am
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Thank you for the identification, GB! :)
Here's a nice pic 1943, in Russia:
HTML https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/e8/62/3ce862c16cdcf5beac74698f3048e9e4.jpg
A real classic German Airfield and aircraft lineup. This was
the label on the pic: Eastern Front, Ebay rarities, Fw 190,
Schlachtflieger ...There was a caption that said, "1940 German
Propaganda picture" (and truthfully it 'does' look staged to
me!) Still a GREAT photo!
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/nhm5rSgL/Deblin-Schlacht.jpg
No caption on this one but shows a grassy area with the
Storch...what could be a dirt runway/access road to the left
back...also note the tall trees in a perfect row in the
background. Amazingly this looks like a 'nice' relaxed...spring
or summer day and the men fooling around the Storch seem happy
and as if on some school outing rather than in terrible, urgent
war! D'oh!
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/fWjqG0XV/Fi156-Storchincolor2.jpg
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Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: Beowolff
Date: April 6, 2019, 5:19 am
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A FANTASTIC Desert War picture of a German Airfield! I love
this shot!
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/MpP7zSbB/airfield.jpg
Ignore the watermark but a GREAT German airfield
picture...supposedly according to the sparse caption, in France.
Shows in good detail the layout of the airfield, hangers,
buildings, etc... with what looks like a city in the far
background.
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/wvGxBw40/events-second-world-war-wwii-france-german-occupation-amiens-air.jpg
This Gloster has seen better days... sad. Caption said 'Defense
of Malta' so this airfield must be in Malta, eh?
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/FF0c6cYw/burnt-out-Gladiator-595x400.jpg
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Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: Beowolff
Date: April 6, 2019, 5:26 am
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Wonderful airfield picture showing great detail on plane lineup,
buildings, roadways, etc... a 'good looking' airfield that makes
me want to BE THERE to see what's going on. Ha! Caption said
816 Royal Australian Navy, I don't know where it is or it's
actual field name... I also can't make out the planes lined up
in PERFECT rows. Still, an interesting photo.
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/hG9zYRjT/816-5a.jpg
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Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: greybeard
Date: April 7, 2019, 3:26 am
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A classic photo: really in colours (I bet Agfacolor :) ), since
I saw it first time on a Kookaburra Publication in late '60s
(when there weren't computers and colorization).
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> No caption on this one but shows a grassy area with the
Storch... Amazingly this looks like a 'nice' relaxed...spring
or summer day and the men fooling around the Storch seem happy
and as if on some school outing rather than in terrible, urgent
war! D'oh!
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I too noticed on many war photos how the subject was often even
smiling and apparently happy! I'm not speaking of propaganda
shots, where it is evident the forced pose and facial expression
of the pilot, but of photographs probably taken by mates or
such. At least some of them looks really happy! Is it possible
to be happy in war?
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Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: greybeard
Date: April 7, 2019, 3:36 am
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It is Nowra, New South Wales, Australia (about 80 mi south of
Sydney). [Source:
HTML https://primotipo.com/2019/03/09/1947-championship-of-new-south-wales-nowra/]
Parked planes seem to me Corsairs and Hellcats, but I'm unsure.
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Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: Beowolff
Date: April 9, 2019, 9:23 am
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hangar_at_Wunstorf_airfield_in_Germany *the caption went on to
say this hanger was abandoned evidently by personnel fleeing
approaching Allied forces.
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/3NBz0SNH/An-abandoned-Messerschmitt-Bf-109-G-and-a-pair-of-Ju-88-G-night-fi.jpg
Self explanatory picture... though I knew about these dummy
fields/planes (all sides used them) this is a particularly
effect one I would think.
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/qB3cLbsk/742961d1411226074-need-help-identifying-piece-german-wwii-aircra.jpg
Ignore the water marks you can see a very real German field here
with the planes spread out rather than lined up in a row. Still
look like setting ducks to me for a bomb or strafing run! This
was 'somewhere' in Russia and may be typical of quickly
improvised (on or near the front) airstrips.
HTML https://i.postimg.cc/nhHwNb2K/events-second-world-war-wwii-russia-aerial-warfare-german-planes.jpg
#Post#: 521--------------------------------------------------
Re: Airfield/strip pictures to aid mission builder population
DIR By: DHumphrey
Date: April 9, 2019, 3:15 pm
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Very interesting Beo,
It's bizarre how the Germans parked their aircraft … with their
moniker of being very meticulous, it's boggles my mind that they
would park their planes in such a fashion.
Here are a few pics of Adak, Alaska:
HTML https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b3/a6/b9/b3a6b9ab974a6e478dcda1b7a31bd16f.jpg
HTML https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/c4/29/18c429e933c0116750b475a7fd8bf3ae.jpg
HTML https://i.pinimg.com/736x/50/33/9b/50339ba86d458c19421c898beb1781da.jpg
HTML http://airfields-freeman.com/AK/Airfields_AK_htm_m37c098d9.jpg
HTML http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/AK/Airfields_AK_htm_19080baa.jpg
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