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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
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Excellent Duckbutt!
This is indeed Saint Pol/Brias ("y" not used nowadays). This place was used extensively by the JG2 and it was also where the pilots got acquainted with the 109F. There even was an unformal "Kommando saint Pol" dedicated to this task. Within the "chateau de Brias" grounds just at the north end of the place (I removed it from the photo) are the remnants of the JaFü 4 "Pluto" which was the fighter command post for all north of France and Belgium in 1943/1944.
How did you find out DB? In any case the floor is yours!
JV
This is indeed Saint Pol/Brias ("y" not used nowadays). This place was used extensively by the JG2 and it was also where the pilots got acquainted with the 109F. There even was an unformal "Kommando saint Pol" dedicated to this task. Within the "chateau de Brias" grounds just at the north end of the place (I removed it from the photo) are the remnants of the JaFü 4 "Pluto" which was the fighter command post for all north of France and Belgium in 1943/1944.
How did you find out DB? In any case the floor is yours!
JV
Jack's Granddad
To precis the pm I've sent to TCF in answer to the same question, I had nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon and spent some time digging around. Despite your best intentions I didn't get much help from your clues but eventually found Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: France . In the Pas De Calais page there is a pic of a USAAF raid on an airfield and despite a different orientation, that distinctive curved wood is clearly visible. A check on Google Earth confirmed the road layout, especially that road coming in from the left at an angle. It's spelled 'Bryas' on that website. Good challenge.
Hope this meets the same high standard:
Hope this meets the same high standard:
I just Goggled "Corsair aircraft named Kathleen"
One discussion site has come up with:
That was 14 Sqn RNZAF, which should narrow it down a bit.....
One discussion site has come up with:
Also NZ5639 was named "Kathleen" in the later part of her tour in Japan.
Further searching of that squadron reveals your photograph as taken at Iwakuni, Japan.
Should have airbrushed out the aircraft name mate.
edit: this would have made it a lot more difficult, especially with no roundels.
Should have airbrushed out the aircraft name mate.
edit: this would have made it a lot more difficult, especially with no roundels.
Last edited by Lightning Mate; 9th Apr 2013 at 06:29.
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Here is one rather interesting:
- there are two airfields on this one (one WWII, one WWI)
- the bombing around the small wood in the center of photo was NOT due to the airfield presence...something else was there...
- the WWI airfield is known for a sad event concerning a well respected ace...
Good search...
JV
- there are two airfields on this one (one WWII, one WWI)
- the bombing around the small wood in the center of photo was NOT due to the airfield presence...something else was there...
- the WWI airfield is known for a sad event concerning a well respected ace...
Good search...
JV
Last edited by asw22; 11th Apr 2013 at 10:41.
Jack's Granddad
I suggest the WW1 airfield is Auxi Le Chateau, to the NE of Abbeville. It was taking off from this field that the RFC Pilot James McCudden VC crashed and was fatally injured on the 9th July 1918.
I confess I do not know the identity of the WW2 airfield or why the wood was bombed.
Edited to add that it would seem the wood was a V2 site. It was named after the nearby village of Acquet.
I confess I do not know the identity of the WW2 airfield or why the wood was bombed.
Edited to add that it would seem the wood was a V2 site. It was named after the nearby village of Acquet.
Last edited by Duckbutt; 11th Apr 2013 at 13:53.