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Which Aerodrome Mk IV
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Thank you dixi. Related to the Naval base at Portsmouth perhaps? An interesting movement, and photo, either way.
Where's this then? I don't think this will last long either...
I'll accept either (or both) of the two names this airfield has been known by during its history.
Where's this then? I don't think this will last long either...
I'll accept either (or both) of the two names this airfield has been known by during its history.
Eighth airforce with 'C' type hangars; most 8th AF stations were wartime with T2 hangars whereas a C type would have been built pre war.
Honington then?
Honington then?
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RAF Glatton, just off the Great North Road in Cambridgeshire. Now known as Conington airfield (hence my comment to chevvron that he was very close with Honington, although not necessarily geographically so). I popped in on one of my airfield-visiting meanders down south last year. A nice memorial on the old Great North Road honouring the brave souls who served there, and also some interesting photos of the old air base in the club house. I also took a photo looking down the runway, in remembrance of the brave men for whom it was the last piece of Earth they felt rumbling beneath their feet.
The nearest village is Conington, but I'm sure I read or heard somewhere that they called the base RAF Glatton (another village just across the Great North Road) to avoid confusion with Coningsby - and now chevvron mentions it, maybe Honington as well.
teusje has called Open House.
Open House? Here's an easy one....
Pacific somewhere?
Wartime Tindal? The place where the first White Constructions swimming pool (the one that had to be replaced) was a site named R6 on an old wartime plan but I don't think the aircraft types are correct.
Gne
Gne
I don't think any B-25's ever deployed to Tindal - it was too late
Might be Amberley?
Might be Amberley?
Pacific Theatre yes.
Gne - Tindal never had hangars during WW2.
Asturias - not Amberley.
Gne - Tindal never had hangars during WW2.
Asturias - not Amberley.
Pacific Theatre .... hmmmm so it could be Australia?
Townsville looks possible - they certainly had those type of hangars there
ARTHUR HOUSEMAN 4TH AIR DEPOT GROUP IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2
https://www.ozatwar.com/people/houseman.htm
https://www.ozatwar.com/people/houseman.htm
Austurias56 has it!
Technically the airfield is Stock Route, used initially by USAAF B-26's, but by the time the photos were taken (and the hangars erected) it was occupied by the USAAF 5th Air Service Command's Depot No.2. The airfield was no longer used as such but was connected to nearby Townsville (Garbutt) by taxiway. In the photo below you can see the dis-used runway and also in the distance Garbutt's 020 degree strip pointing directly at the camera.
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Technically the airfield is Stock Route, used initially by USAAF B-26's, but by the time the photos were taken (and the hangars erected) it was occupied by the USAAF 5th Air Service Command's Depot No.2. The airfield was no longer used as such but was connected to nearby Townsville (Garbutt) by taxiway. In the photo below you can see the dis-used runway and also in the distance Garbutt's 020 degree strip pointing directly at the camera.
Over to Austurias56....
This one caught my eye
I forgot to say how astounded I was at the number of serious airbases that were built in a few months in the least populated parts of Australia in WW2