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Old 2nd Jan 2016, 09:01
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asw22
 
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Not Oostende...

Actually Flap40 has it right...The picture is a bit NW up and it is indeed Le Havre Octeville airfield in 1945, with a US logistic camp installed there.

One can see the initial Le Havre -and former- Bléville airfield, on the left of the photo, with the old hangars in the bottom left and the taxiway linking them to the new airfield.
These hangars were used by the Germans as Werkhallen as there were none on the new airfield, its construction having started just before war, Bléville having been deemed too small for the new aircraft generations.

Flap 40 has the helm!

JV
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