F4F Wildcat of VMF 221. Wake Island ?

Correct as it is Midway - Over to you SD.

edit: I saw Wake Island there before the edit :ok:

Apologies,nvubu.
I really cannot take that one, as I went for Wake Island and not Midway.

YHC.

OK SD, here's another one:

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/...e/Untitled.jpg

That's a lovely cloud in the background, no idea where it is so a random guess Port Philip Bay, Melbourne?

Sorry SH, wrong continent.

The image is lacking in features other than that cloud - so here is a photo of the overnight hotel - which is still there, although somewhat changed.

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/.../20120622C.jpg

Empire Airmail Map
 

Somewhere in Africa mate?....

East coast?...

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/9809/img015te.jpg

West Coast ? Freetown ? LFH

Bermuda? Open house if correct.

It's one of the locations on the map :ok:

Lake Victoria (Port Bell) Kenya. Source; "Merchant Airman" by H.M. Stationery Office,1946 at 2/- net.

Hmmmm... not sure I should give that to you SD as your source has the country wrong. :confused: It's shown in the correct country on the map :D

I'm just popping out for a couple of hours, so once you've corrected the country, feel free to take control.

Hint: It's the Pearl of Africa you want.:ok:

I'm sure that sabredog actually meant Uganda.

Dave

PS. Is that building now part of the Lake Victoria Hotel? Stayed there in 1969 with BOAC and it looks familiar.

The source (and Airclues) has the correct country,Uganda. It was I who had the mental block!

I'm sure everyone will agree that the name is more important than the country. Therefore I believe that sabredog has control.

Dave

He does have control - I was being pedantic as he is usually so accurate.

Although in this region there might have been an issue as names change, and so do country borders - e.g. Port Florence (Kisumu) was the terminus of the Uganda railway, this was in Uganda at the time. It was decided that as the rest of the railway was in Kenya that the border should be changed changed to incorporate it. It was changed and the railway, still called the Uganda Railway, no longer went to Uganda. Couple of very interesting books on this region: The Lunatic Express: An Entertainment in Imperialism and The White Nile by Alan Moorehead.

Airclues: the hotel is the Silver Springs hotel, which is on the road from Port Bell to Kampala. It has changed completely since this photo, even in the last 10 years it has been rebuilt since I knew it in the 90's/00's.

Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe is largely unchanged, although they have moved the entrance from where you would have known it to round the back - and rather scruffy and downbeat, and the entrance and drive is now a terrace and pathways through the gardens.

SD - over to you

Thank you,nvubu and Airclues. I misread the caption to the photograph which was exactly the same as the challenge, complete with the CB .
The next, more modern challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/.../Quiz130-1.jpg

Bit of a long shot.....Tabarka?

Sorry, but it is not Tabarka ,Capot.

Brac, Croatia - I think!

Indeed it is,jindabyne. Brac airport,Croatia is correct.
Well done.
YHC

Thanks - bit busy for now, so OH

try this one
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/v.../pprunesun.jpg

Masterton airport,Wairarapa,New Zealand.

yep - sabredog it's Hood / Masterton - on NZs North Island - home of NZs sports and vintage aviation society - over to you

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/hood.jpg

Thank you ,descol. Following the D.H. Mosquito theme, and should not be too hard to nail.
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/...33/Quiz132.jpg

Sorry,Jenkins,not Seletar,although I can see your reasoning.

St Francois Xavier, Manitoba

You are correct,jindabyne. Well done.
YHC

I am curious about the photo claimed to be at the St. Francois Xavier, Manitoba aerodrome.

I know of no BCATP/RCAF airfield at this location. St. Francois Xavier is a rural municipality and the community is no more than a hamlet. There is a single 3,000 ft. airstrip of turf/earth/gravel , but no remnant of an aerodrome with a substantial structure such as depicted in the photo with the Mosquito.

Can you direct me to the photo's web site ? Thank you.

P.M. on it's way,Bri. Could well be an incorrect photograph caption.
Although there is a question mark over the airfield identification, jindabyne answered in good faith,so still has control.
Over to you,jindabyne.

Try this ----

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...osse/uuuuu.jpg

Got to be West Wales or Cornwall :confused: Loads of mobile homes/caravans ? Raddz horrors there:ugh:

Balyhalbert NI. OH if correct

Correct flyingwing - OH it is!

Going back in time here:

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/.../20120626A.jpg

Is that BC or AD time, Hippo ? :) LFH

Littlestone (Jesson) Airfield, Romney,Kent.

No catching you out this time - YHC

Open House