I'd have to say no, not anywhere like Iwo Jima - although right theatre.

Adak ?.....

Right chain of islends, wrong island though.

This event took place on the island

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/...ps16553491.jpg

Well, a USAF photo lists the P40 as 11th Fighter Squadron, 343rd Fighter Group.

Perhaps it's Kiska.

Whoops, wrong hemispehere :ok:

WTFO?

When I suggested Adak you said it was the right chain of islands..

I therefore assumed the Aleutians.

Are you now telling me it's the far east?

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Photo Credit: USGovPhoto Date: ca 1942Photo Location: Aleutian Islands, AlaskaPhoto ID: 57-P401010

Definately the Aleutians.

Alaska is the most Easterly AND Westerly AND Northern state in the US.

All I can say is that one US aviation historian places the aircraft at Adak, so it's down to the reliability of sources.

Yours might well have it as Fort Glenn.

I shall now watch to see what anyone else comes up with.

My research suggests that the 54th fighter squadron P-38s - at Adak - not sure if this hepls !
rgds Descol

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The source of all the images I posted state that they are on Umnak Island - which is where Ft Glenn is - although it doesn't state whether they are at Ft Glenn or one of the two satellite fields.

The sentry in my 2nd image looks like he is wearing the WWI style helmet, so the image is early rather than later, which would suggest Ft Glenn again.

LM - you have control

Thank you - we got there somehow in the end.

New one:

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...psd06081b6.jpg

Did we? Or am I confused again (not difficult these days)

United States?

Looks more like a tank park in Germany to me.

Tanks ...??!! There's me thinking they wuz pigsties or hayricks. Intrigued by the three diamond shaped markings on the large pan and the shanty town on the boundary. Best I can guess is a former "Eastern Bloc" field - LFH

Hello all!

Happy new year everybody!

The three diamonds are actually three squares with the "H" symbol in a dotted triangle...so it seems like US Army training grounds on a former airfield...as for the airfield itself it looks like one of these many old navy training bases around Chesapeake Bay (and elsewhere on the West Coast); I have thought for a while it may have been a former German Fliegerhorst but the disposition, hangar location, size of runways and tarmac are all wrong...I would say US, really...:)

While we're waiting for LM to reach rotate speed, briefly back to the Aleutians where I found Nvubu's photo of the P-40 under maintenance.

On balance I suggest the pic would have been at Fort Glenn, rather than either of the satellites.


I also found this approach (??**!!) plate from 1943 - Radio Range I suppose. It shows Fort Glenn plus its two subsequent satellites (North and South West) as referred to in the Wiki entry for Ft. G.

I would post the plate but I can't get into PB again.

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1358155932

It appears the southwesterly satellite field was later covered in lava and there is nothing of it on GE. The northern one is still evident on GE and I wonder if a misunderstanding has crept in over the years.

The northern satellite would logically have qualified for the name "North Shore."

Wiki refers to "North Shore" with a logical Lat & Long for the north satellite, but GE has "North Shore" annotated at the location of Ft. Glenn. I think the GE notation is incorrect.

LFH

Late edit - new beta pbuck still playing up - its only the old site plus ffox that works for me. A fascinating challenge Nvubu - now for LM's Pacific island.

Good morning and apologies for an unexpected absence.

This was an American airfield on a Pacific island.

Not sure of it's exact name, but I'm going to go for Orote Field, Guam. Next to Apra Harbour.

OH if correct.