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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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  • A historic picture of an aerodrome will be posted. Newer pictures are allowed but the theme here is to compare/contrast old with new as well as identifying aerodromes which no longer exist.
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Old 25th May 2019, 17:32
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KP - not Japan but there is a connection.

ea - yes.
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Old 25th May 2019, 17:54
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South Pacific ? Initial thought was Midway, but looks like old Japanese runways overlaid by US, so ....
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Old 25th May 2019, 17:58
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Do tell us more...…...
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Old 25th May 2019, 18:19
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Marpi Point - Northern end of Saipan.

OH if correct (nothing available at moment)

I'll let dook tell you more of the cliffs at the top of the photo.
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Old 25th May 2019, 18:23
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Best to read it quietly......
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Old 25th May 2019, 18:29
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Known as the suicide cliffs because during the battle for Saipan, 800 Japanese troops committed suicide there.

Shackman gets the top banana with Marpi Point and has declared OH.
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Old 25th May 2019, 20:28
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Thanks Dook & Shackman!

Just a little bit of fun, this one. Shan't last long, I don't think...
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Old 25th May 2019, 20:34
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Old 25th May 2019, 20:37
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Haha Well, there are three clues in there, Mr. d. Two of them very large!
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Old 25th May 2019, 20:40
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Yes - I have nb'd all three. That's the easy bit.

I would say Europe.
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Old 25th May 2019, 20:41
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You would be correct!
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Old 25th May 2019, 20:47
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And it is very reminiscent of an airfield I knew in Germany.
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Old 25th May 2019, 21:02
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Devil

The airfield hasn't been part of Germany for quite a while, I'm afraid. Long before your time, I'm sure, dook.
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Old 25th May 2019, 21:08
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If you're talking about German administration it might point to Luxembourg.
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Old 25th May 2019, 21:24
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Yep, 'tis Luxembourg. I'll give you it as there's obviously only one airfield in that country that has EasyJet service
The cooling towers on the horizon, on the other hand, are in France. Luxembourg was not only occupied by the Nazis during WWII but was actually annexed, like Austria, into the German Reich. The bit of France the cooling towers are in, is Lorraine which (I think) was also part of Germany at one time, although maybe a different time to the one in which Luxembourg was.
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Old 26th May 2019, 08:38
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Thank you jensdad.

The cooling towers didn't help but your last clue did, and even then I wasn't sure. It might have been Holland.

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Old 26th May 2019, 09:31
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This one I know - NAS Philadelphia in the USA?
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Old 26th May 2019, 10:00
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Nicely done magruder - the US Naval Aircraft Factory.

New balls please.
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Try this - a bit harder than my first one I think..... I'm off out until about 16:00 London time

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Any arborists around to identify the trees,or are they storks nests...?
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