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olympus 16th Feb 2012 15:11

RAF Baghdad aka RAF Hinaidi aka RAF Hinaida

descol 16th Feb 2012 17:12

It sure is RAF Hinaida - near Baghdad - vacated by the RAF in 1941 - renamed Rashid Airfield in honour of Iraqui PM and then used against the RAF
over to Olympus

olympus 16th Feb 2012 19:46

evansb got it first so I'll defer to him.

evansb 16th Feb 2012 23:08

Thank you. Here is the next mystery aerodrome:

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../wad120216.jpg

Russell Gulch 16th Feb 2012 23:14

PNW?

..and a few words

Gordy 16th Feb 2012 23:15

Stanley airfield, Nova Scotia...I think. Has been many years since I was out that way...

OH if correct.

evansb 17th Feb 2012 11:53

Gordy is correct. Stanley, Nova Scotia was a BCATP aerodrome of yore.
The airfield hosts Canada's largest annual fly-in.

As requested, it is OPEN HOUSE.

nvubu 17th Feb 2012 18:39

Lets see how you do with this aerodrome

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/...PRuNe/017A.jpg

Let me know if you want or need a photo outside :ok:

TheiC 17th Feb 2012 20:57

I'll take a stab at Woodvale (or somewhere very like it!).

nvubu 17th Feb 2012 21:09

Not RAF Woodvale, and not in the UK

TheiC 17th Feb 2012 21:15

Well, I did say a stab... So, those aren't sand dunes of the type we're familiar with here, then...

Cue the experts, who will work it out from the type of 'Aldis' lamp (using name generically, before someone points out that it's not one!).

nvubu 17th Feb 2012 21:33

No sand dunes anywhere I can see, although those might well be some sort of palm trees out of the left hand window on the far side of the runway.

Russell Gulch 17th Feb 2012 22:08

Judjing by the tea chest architecture: Nanyuki (or Nyeri) 1951?

nvubu 17th Feb 2012 22:17

Not Kenya, or Africa.

1943 - same year it was completed

nvubu 17th Feb 2012 22:33

Here's another view

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/...PRuNe/017B.jpg

nvubu 18th Feb 2012 10:54

Timezone is UTC-5. Time of the first photo is shown here.

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/...uNe/017A-2.jpg

The 2nd photo (10 days after the 1st one) looks to be around the same time - or an hour or so earlier.

Photos taken in December 1943, 2nd one looking east.

Russell Gulch 18th Feb 2012 21:58

B-25's in the photo?

evansb 18th Feb 2012 23:36

Atterbury-Bakalar airfield, Indiana ?

nvubu 19th Feb 2012 08:44

Not in the USA, but it is in country that was allied to the USA, and the airfield was named after the President of that Country - but it isn't named that now.

Used for Anti-submarine patrols and as a training airfield for B29s. At the end of the war the US withdrew and handed the facility over the host government.

I was wrong in one of my previous posts - it was built in 1942 not 1943.

sabredog 19th Feb 2012 10:11

San Antonio de los Baņos Airfield,Cuba.


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