Nea Anchialos?

No, but try the other side!

In the interests of trying to keep this thread alive, I'll have a stab at Preveza/Aktion then.

Preveza is it, with decoy F 84 and F 86.


Your control.

Thanks dash7fan.

Decoys, eh? Cool. I see the odd one is still lying around the place, if GE is anything to go by.

Regrettably, I have nothing to hand which will pass (or rather, fail) the GI test, so OH.

Here is another easy one....:)

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2851/1...6efa2d0222.jpg

[Later]
Ooops, my apologies! That airport has been on already so OH it is!

BTW, it is Kabul.
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Let's go back well into the past... The sheer size of the building is of course the first clue into the type of aviation that went on here....
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/a...oonAirbase.jpg
and that's what it looks like nowadays
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/a...onAirbase2.jpg

France or Germany?

Possibly Antwerp.

neither of both, but a lot of French was spoken. And the uninvited visit by the germans, marked the end of the lighter than air era for that airbase (and for the airforce as a whole as a matter of fact)
nope, although Antwerp has also a history going back to the 1920's (the airport building is still largely the original from that era). But it never had a permanent role as an airbase (excluding the years of those uninvited visitors)

That would be the ballon hangar of Zellik on the NW outskirts of Brussels, I guess...

Another clue... the base was named after a 'lighter than air' military aviator who died in Passchendaele in 1918 when he was shot down during a reconnaissance mission. By coincidence, the question ‘France or Germany’ from the previous post, can be used here. His first name was of French origin and his last name was of German origin. The airbase had mainly (or even only) tethered balloons in its inventory.

[Edit] oops, I was interrupted while typing the post, and when finishing it, the right answer was already there!! Congrats asw22!!
Indeed, the pre WW II airbase in Zellik, named after Cpt-Cdr. Serge Eckstein, was turned into a military depot after WW II and de-militarised in 1995. This building is about the only thing that remains of the pre WW II era. On GE you can find it at 50°53'31.50"N 4°16'19.00"E
See also Panoramio - Photo of Zellik/Asse, oude ballonloods Panoramio - Photo of Zellik/Asse, oude ballonloods van de luchtvaartkazerne Serge Eckstein

Hello!

> DIBO, It took some time to find this one...but with the clue "a lot of french but not France" and lighter than air...that was a nice one!

Here is my last proposal:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/543/lgds.jpg

I will let you look for it a little bit. The general sector is my usual one...If needed I will give one clue later which will make the identifying sooo much easier....;)

I flew my virtual 'plane up and down the Somme to try to find the location, but failed miserably.

And I know the Somme in person quite well.

So I dont beleive the river in the picture is the Somme so a small clue required please asw.

Russ.

(This "W" thread is so much better behaved than the "Other" one :rolleyes:)

OK....Here is the clue:

1945/1/1

;)

Marne, rather than the Somme?

Think you are referring to Operation Bodenplatte (1jan'45). Maybe we should look more north, in the Battle of the Bulge area??

There were not that many airfields targeted in Bödenplatte, and none in the battle of the Bulge area per se...

So look up north, north/north east...

Denmark?

Plus some letters

Bödenplatte operation, remember, so not Denmark...