WallerField it is. Historical photos taken April 1943.


Over to you Dave.

Open House, I'm afraid - busy week.

As no-one has jumped in here's another one from me - bonus points for naming all the aircraft types. Click here for a larger version.

https://dk4keq.bl3301.livefilestore....&cropmode=none

Unlike most of the other aerodromes I post, this one does appear in a GI search. However, I don't believe that the location has been identified correctly in the these other pages.

Great photo with lots of detail to get your teeth into!

Beufighters with american markings = USAf nightfigters before the P-61 entered service.
Somewhere in the Mediterranian theatre?

Yes, it's somewhere in the Med.

Beaufighters, P-38, P-61, A-20?
Don’t know where.

OK. How about Bastia-Poretta, Corsica?
(On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the legendary French pilot, took off from this airport and disappeared, on a reconnaissance flight over France in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...t_Archives.png

Hmmmm. I reckon your overhead is the same airfield as my photo, which is interesting, as the contemporary description I have for it is:
Which would mean mainland France.

I reckon your image is misidentified as I cannot line it up with Bastia-Poretta - even though the water course looks similar, there's no railway and the runway is totally out of alignment. However, I think I can line it up with where I think it is - no water course present today, but with the railway and runway matching. :ok:

Not had much experience with the GE overlay though, so I might be 100% wrong!

Aha!
Wikipedia got me!
Their page about Bastia - Poretta has that aerial photo, but they clearly labeled it as Bastia - Borgo. DOH!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastia...oretta_Airport

A bit more research reveals that there were several airfields at that location.

I'll try again calling it Bastia - Borgo
http://www.forgottenairfields.com/up...orgo/Borgo.jpg
More information and photos here Bastia Borgo
Good stuff.

Nothing to see there now.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ediy03zb6d...rgo-1.JPG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ra5oyur3uv...%20-2.JPG?dl=1

OK, that fits, so I reckon you've nailed it. Good sleuthing.

https://rmn34a.bl3301.livefilestore....&cropmode=none

Still clashes with the source documentation I have which is pointing to the mainland and Hyeres le Palyvestre/Toulon.
https://3qsbpq.bl3301.livefilestore....&cropmode=none

Other pages on the web with my image on it are pointing at La Vallon airfield?

Over to you Terry.

Thanks nvubu.
It is a good challenge when there is a high resolution photo with plenty of details available for clues.
I have nothing handy right now, so I would like to hand it back to you, or otherwise Opern House.

Thunderbolts and Lightnings........very, very frightening..me!

This was a great challenge, and I'm sadly a bit late to the party.

Not that any further proof is necessary, but I tried lining up the GE view as per the aerial photo with the P-38, as follows:

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4567/...548e8e2a_c.jpg

Seems the corner where the Beaus were is now a prison site - fuzzed out by Google for some reason - must be a NATO prison... :)

Here’s an easy one to keep things going. An airfield I flew from in the 60s, now closed, like most of the RAF airfields I flew from.

RAF Lindholme - although surely that is the 'tower' of Northern Radar!

Or is it Watton or North Luffenham? Certainly does look like a Type 82 unit.

I said it was easy. Shackman has it. It's the Type 82 radar tower at Lindholme.

The Type 82 "Orange Yeoman" radar

Unfortunately unable to download photos at the moment, so OH.

Eastern Radar wasn't on Watton airfield or camp, it was on the edge of Watton town which was great, easier to go down the Crown Hotel boozer of a lunchtime :)