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McClellan AFB Sacramento. (Ca - USA )
Nice aerial Graeme, but it was the date what dunnit.
By elimination, it seems the only significant B-47 unit still operating in 1967 was the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron with WB-47Es - principally nuclear radiation sampling. BTW the CO was Col Hiram P Bilyeu and they got an Air Force Excellence award that year. LFH
Nice aerial Graeme, but it was the date what dunnit.
By elimination, it seems the only significant B-47 unit still operating in 1967 was the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron with WB-47Es - principally nuclear radiation sampling. BTW the CO was Col Hiram P Bilyeu and they got an Air Force Excellence award that year. LFH
Thank you Graeme. I think your flightline is up the top right corner of the aerial. McClellan is now a Coast Guard Air Station.
Here's an interesting one. I guess the photographer didn't want to hang around.
Here's an interesting one. I guess the photographer didn't want to hang around.
Or maybe somewhere near or on frozen Lake Ladoga during the siege of Leningrad?
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Not Forus, Brian. Further north. This 'field' never had the same 'substance' or 'foundation' found at places like Forus. Though it was only operational for a month or so during the War, there has been some recent aviation 'activity' here.
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... could it be Elga?
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Most of the references to the JU-52 that sank there refer to it as Lake Hartvigvannet.
For example; Junkers Ju.52/3mg4e, 6821, Technikmuseum Speyer
Dave
Most of the references to the JU-52 that sank there refer to it as Lake Hartvigvannet.
For example; Junkers Ju.52/3mg4e, 6821, Technikmuseum Speyer
Dave
Dave & David - I think they're all the same lake in different tongues. But Lake Hart **** worrevver is close to Narvik, which is way up north. You're right it's a frozen lake. And similarly, several German aircraft sank through the melting ice at the beginning of the Norwegian part of Operation Weserubung. Similarly, one/some have recently been recovered from this lake and these events have been publicly recorded. I get the impression that most of these frozen lake ops were all "Plan B" or " nur im Notfall verwenden !"
See my reply to TheiC yesterday
This challenge lake was apparently used for civil water operations before the war, and briefly by RAF flying boats at the end of WWII.
Call when you need mo' clue. LFH
See my reply to TheiC yesterday
"... Not Elga, but you're within 100 miles, so you're getting warmer."
Call when you need mo' clue. LFH
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