Not in Italy or the Med.

Are we by any chance on an island ?

Gulf area possibly Masirah?

We are not on an Island, so that answers two questions in one go.

We are in a gulf area - that gives you a number of choices :ok:

The accommodation blocks
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I've got one more photo - which has the name/number of a squadron based here. Do you want it now?

"Gulf area" lists about forty choices but few are hot. :uhoh:

If you look at a map of the Masirah and zoom out until you can view from India to Egypt, there are three named "Gulfs" in view. This airfield is in the area of one of these three.

Once you know which one, I'd imagine the forty choices should reduce in number.

They already have, looking at climate.

Possible candidates are the Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Oman.

Yes, it isn't in the Persian Gulf.

I won't say which of the other two it is, but this may (or may not) help.

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I can't believe in WW2 that the USAAF had a base in Yemen or Somalia but it might have been Iran.

Was it Wadi Seidna ?

It isn't in Africa, so Wadi Seidna is out.

If you were in the RAF in the early 1960s, and were posted to this country, you may well have gone gliding at this location.

Are you hinting at Sheik Othman?

The only gliding I can think of is Aden Services Gliding Club, and I don't think it's there.

Yes Jenkins I am, as it is Sheik Othman in Aden, over to you.

dook - beaten to it by 15 minutes.

It looks like there is a small amount of runway remaining - Bing maps shows this much clearer than GE.

The gliding reference came from here.

Thanks, not been there since 1956, visiting parents from school. There is one within this chapel, albeit not this chapel, Argosy and Belfast pilot, who writes occasionally about the Gliding Club. I gather there had been a Transit Centre at Sheikh Othman in WW2.

OH I regret.

Can't have an OH.

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Alaska?




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Aleutians?

You're both getting there.