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To relieve the boredom then:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ler/Puzz95.jpg

Morning Db.

Not been around of late.

Russian helicopters and the centre one might be an Mi4, so we may be in Russia or the old east Germany.

We are, LM

Salzwedel ?

Yes, Salzwedel - you have control. If the challenge had got stuck I also had this picture of the same field in an earlier incarnation:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...er/Puzz95a.jpg

Apologies, but I have injured myself so it will have to be OH.

Hello all!

I have been away for a while but I have no shortage of interesting european airfields!...Here it is:

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/8834/pprune6.jpg

I am misericordious and will provide one clue:

JG2 - transition to Bf 109F

Northern France?

Evreux, France?

OH if correct as just off t'pub.

Dave

Not the brain again?

Northern France it is, Evreux it is not...

Another clue: nearby was a fighter command post of considerable operational importance (also, lot of remnants)

Just for fun a view of the large hangar visible in the upper centre of the airfield photo:

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/5838/pprune6aux.jpg

Well I've found a copy of the 'hangar' photo which is labled 'Beauvais' but I can't tie in the first pic with anything on Google Earth though.

Perhaps later development of the nearby airfield together with the autoroute service area have changed the layout too much.

The crescent-shaped wood and the one to its left look like those at the R101 crash site, generally referred to as near Beauvais so Duckbutt's on to something!

Nivillers ?

No, it is not Beauvais (Tillé), nor is it Nivillers. Look up north...The Fighter HQ I am referring to was code-named "PLUTO" by their german users...

Beauvais Tillé and Nivillers form a meta-airfield, they are connected together and in the case of Tillé are concrete runway equipped.

The photo I propose to your sagacity shows no such thing... If the hangar has been labelled Beauvais elsewhere, it is wrong but understandable; Beauvais had a great many hangars camouflaged as "farms" including a couple of them workshops 40 or 50m wide which warranted themselves this kind of "manor" camouflage.
If one looks closely to the photo you will notice two 40m hangars of this type. They have now disappeared but another airfield nearby has kept its example (devoid of the camouflage now!)...which makes it rather unique (only one other survivor of the type in Creil, this one never camouflaged)...

JV

Gotcha I reckon! St Pol-Bryas, just to the north of St Pol s/Ternoise?

I reckon you're right Duckbutt... how on earth did you find that neck of the woods?

TCF

TCF see pm.

Excellent Duckbutt!

This is indeed Saint Pol/Brias ("y" not used nowadays). This place was used extensively by the JG2 and it was also where the pilots got acquainted with the 109F. There even was an unformal "Kommando saint Pol" dedicated to this task. Within the "chateau de Brias" grounds just at the north end of the place (I removed it from the photo) are the remnants of the JaFü 4 "Pluto" which was the fighter command post for all north of France and Belgium in 1943/1944.

How did you find out DB? In any case the floor is yours!

JV

To precis the pm I've sent to TCF in answer to the same question, I had nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon and spent some time digging around. Despite your best intentions I didn't get much help from your clues but eventually found Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: France . In the Pas De Calais page there is a pic of a USAAF raid on an airfield and despite a different orientation, that distinctive curved wood is clearly visible. A check on Google Earth confirmed the road layout, especially that road coming in from the left at an angle. It's spelled 'Bryas' on that website. Good challenge.

Hope this meets the same high standard:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ler/Puzz96.jpg

I just Goggled "Corsair aircraft named Kathleen"

One discussion site has come up with:

That was 14 Sqn RNZAF, which should narrow it down a bit.....

Further searching of that squadron reveals your photograph as taken at Iwakuni, Japan.

Should have airbrushed out the aircraft name mate. ;)

edit: this would have made it a lot more difficult, especially with no roundels.

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps84c23eb3.jpg

Correct LM. Thought about airbrushing as suggested but it's always a dilemma on here as to how many clues you do leave in a picture.

All yours.

Thanks Db.

Another for you all.....

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps165b95d6.jpg

Bizerta Tunisia? Just flashed into my mind but not expecting any success. Hills seem too high......

Morning aviate.

Not Tunisia I'm afraid.

Comiso, Italy ?

Could it be Crete? Don't know the name of the airfield but there was one near mountains where the German invaders landed.

Hot.

Not Crete but the right country. ;)

Molaoi airfield... Greece.

TCF

Thar ye go. :D

Your stage.

My apologies chaps; I've nothing prepared to make a worthwhile challenge... Open House to the first to the post.

TCF

Here's one to be going on with...and I couldn't see it on Mel's list...

http://i48.tinypic.com/2ps36fp.jpg

Rheine (Hopsten) in 1945...The black spots are of snow blown/melt by reactors of Me 262 on the start of their take off run ...

JV

Well done mate - thought it might have lasted just a little longer though. :)

Your control.

Here is one rather interesting:

- there are two airfields on this one (one WWII, one WWI)

- the bombing around the small wood in the center of photo was NOT due to the airfield presence...something else was there...

- the WWI airfield is known for a sad event concerning a well respected ace...

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3469/pprune7.jpg

Good search...;)

JV

Bonjour asw.

France and used by the Luftwaffe?

I suggest the WW1 airfield is Auxi Le Chateau, to the NE of Abbeville. It was taking off from this field that the RFC Pilot James McCudden VC crashed and was fatally injured on the 9th July 1918.

I confess I do not know the identity of the WW2 airfield or why the wood was bombed.

Edited to add that it would seem the wood was a V2 site. It was named after the nearby village of Acquet.