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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).
Here are some "rules" for Which Aerodrome. These are based upon the original suggestions from the very first thread, and have a few additions. Also please be patient as when you are active others may be asleep.
 Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu. 
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Certainly tropical. How about PNG?
So when you said "Wrong continents", did you mean that laterite runway is on another continent or not on a continent at all?
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If it is in Guyana - having been through all the airports listed in Wiki, I reckon it's one of Lethem or Linden - leaving towards Lethem as there doesn't seem to be any evidence of buildings at all around Linden.
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Clue time. Another airfield that is located in a region that has changed countries.
It is no longer an airfield, but layout is still very recognisable - and there seems to be the outline of a landing circle remaining - very visible on Bing Maps.
It is no longer an airfield, but layout is still very recognisable - and there seems to be the outline of a landing circle remaining - very visible on Bing Maps.
nvubu,
Thanks for your update. In the original pictures, I thought the linear feature was a canal, but I see it's a railway.
Schleswig-Holstein?
Thanks for your update. In the original pictures, I thought the linear feature was a canal, but I see it's a railway.
a region that has changed countries.
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Not Schleswig-Holstein. It is in the same area as my previous one from WWI.
It is no longer an aerodrome so it's much harder to find, so to help <-------- is approx. north on the previous two photos.
There was a very early battle (Aug 1914) in the area (that'll have you thumbing through the history books). There seems to have been a fair amount of action in the first month of the war.
I have found some photos of the airfield on an auction site - but only when searching under the German name.
edit: my modern photo is a screenshot from Bing Maps as the "landing circle" is visible here, whereas it is not so pronounced in GE.
It is no longer an aerodrome so it's much harder to find, so to help <-------- is approx. north on the previous two photos.
There was a very early battle (Aug 1914) in the area (that'll have you thumbing through the history books). There seems to have been a fair amount of action in the first month of the war.
I have found some photos of the airfield on an auction site - but only when searching under the German name.
edit: my modern photo is a screenshot from Bing Maps as the "landing circle" is visible here, whereas it is not so pronounced in GE.
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Thanks for the clues.
The Germans started the war advancing towards Lille, which is North West of your previous location, so I followed the railway line from there in that direction looking for roads crossing it.
When I got to road D674 there it was., just a nondescript open field now.
The nearest Village is Morhange which has a bloody history.
The Germans started the war advancing towards Lille, which is North West of your previous location, so I followed the railway line from there in that direction looking for roads crossing it.
When I got to road D674 there it was., just a nondescript open field now.
The nearest Village is Morhange which has a bloody history.
The Battle of Morhange saw the start of one of the bloodiest periods of the war for France, now largely forgotten, especially outside of France. Morhange was in Lorraine and was in a region annexed by the new nation of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Therefore Morhange was in Germany in 1914 and called Mörchingen. In the fighting here on 20th August 1914 the French lost more than 5,000 men, but it was just the start of a very dark period leading up to the blackest day on 22nd August 1914 when more than 22,000 French soldiers were killed in one day. By the close of the year the French had lost more than 300,000 killed on the battlefield; nearly a fifth of the total losses for the whole war in just the first few months.