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Hello? Hello? It is your turn.
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I'll keep the thread going with this photo of an airfield being constructed.
https://xplnfg.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none If TCF appears, I'll cede control. |
Are we back in the Arctic again?
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Hmmm.. Interesting question, which I had to look up the answer.
Just outside the Arctic circle. |
Could almost be Mt Pleasant in the Falklands!!!
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Iceland - Keflavik?
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Haven't a clue is very close.
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How close - Reykjavik maybe?
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no - much much closer to (but not) Meeks Field
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You can, and you have. Patterson field it is.
The floor is yours Jenkins |
I knew little about Iceland's role in WWII but learnt a lot of fascinating stuff in the past 15 minutes or so. Visited the place in February and the rocks I photographed looked very much like the ones in your picture. Thanks nvubu for the challenge!
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You're welcome
Here are some more images of Patterson Field. Control Tower - similar view today - clicky https://ziktra.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none https://qcs2xa.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none https://lg5ada.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none I'll keep other photos from Iceland under wraps for later challenge. |
Could almost be Mt Pleasant in the Falklands!!! |
Nothing Arctic about this aerodrome:
http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...pssymcpf6o.png Sorry about the fuzziness - the pilot who took this photo, didn't understand the concept of manual focus. |
Somewhere in the Pacific?
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Majuro PKMJ.
OH if correct (and I'm fairly sure it is). |
Yes, it's Marshall Islands International Airport on Majuro Atoll. Elevation 6 feet and soon to be lower!
I'm currently "sailing" through the Marshall Islands (http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/5876...as-2016-a.html) and while searching on GE, I found Majuro. The picture is a screengrab from a video taken by the pilots of a 737 being ferried from Arizona to Indonesia. Worth watching for the very casual CRM - the pilots pass the camera back and forth! Chimbu Warrior has declared Open House. |
A 737 from Arizona to Indonesia? Pah! Try ferrying a 748 (Avro) from Woodford to Majuro for delivery to Air Marshall Islands in the 1980s...:E
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"Far Side of the World"
http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...pswl8vlkis.png
Barry, I assume you didn't fly the GC route. ;) West or East about? How many hours? |
Here's one of mine to maintain the continuity - and speaking of the 748...
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l.../Scan10040.jpg |
:) If only! Took the long route via the Far East, then PNG, Solomon Islands, iirc.
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Looks tropical - Sub-Saharan Africa?
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No, a long way from there...
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Certainly tropical. How about PNG?
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No - wrong continents :)
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Somewhere warm....tropical maybe sub tropical......northern or Southern Hemisphere? :ok:
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North of the Equator, but definitely tropical!
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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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It's not in Africa and it's not in Asia. It was a laterite strip, but this photo is about 30 years old.
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Could this be in Guyana?
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It could be...
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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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Yes, it's Lethem! From what I can see, apart from a runway with a firmer surface, not a lot has changed.
Over to you... |
I'll have something later this evening, however, if anyone wants to jump in now please do so.
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Here we go, the next mystery aerodrome.
Couple of images during a raid. https://l245ha.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none https://0skmva.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none |
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. |
Here's how it looks now
https://m0dwdg.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none and then https://0skmva.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none |
nvubu,
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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