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Old 6th May 2017, 06:04
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Well done Terry! To be pedantic (who? me?), this is Gerbini/Main. As part of a complex of some 14 satellites west of Catania (most of which were very basic), this was one of the Luftwaffe's main base areas on Sicily. This airfield is not to be confused with the current Gerbini airfield, which is built on the site of Gerbini/Sud.

Fw 190G-3 WNr 160057, formerly of SKG 10, was captured here intact in September 1943.



The "Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in the Battle for Sicily" contains this intriguing strike photo:



The acute angled aqueduct/railway junction (with the distinct kink in the aqueduct) are readily found on Google Earth immediately south of the airfield. Apart from the 2 Fw 190's on the lower RHS of the photo, also of interest are the three "anchor"-shaped blast pens in the top LH corner. If you scroll your GE back to the 2002 images, two of these pens were still there!

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