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 | Airfield at Laon, France. Runways form the "V" right of center. Taxiways and hardstands are visible in the lower right corner.
242 B-17s are dispatched to bomb airfields in France; 113 hit Laon/Athies, 71 hit Juvincourt, 43 hit Laon/Couvron, 10 hit Lille/Vendeville and 1 hits Chievres; 2 B-17s are lost and 44 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 1 WIA and 20 MIA. |  | 02/16/2007 | 289 | 
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 | Montdidier Airfield on July 17, 1944. This was for bomb damage assessment. The airfield looks abandoned.
FRIDAY, 14 JULY 1944
Mission 473: During the evening 131 B-24s are dispatched to hit airfields in France; 54 hit Montdidier Airfield and 39 hit Peronne Airfield; 9 B-24s are damaged. 40 other B-24s fail to bomb because of failure of blind-bombing equipment. Escort is ... | | 12/24/2008 | 382 |
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 | Bombing of St. Avord, France airfield at 28.4.44 by the 381st BG. The photo was taken from 14,100 feet by a B-17G. |  | 05/15/2006 | 377 |
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 | In the german Luftwaffe, the airfield was called Nancy-Essay. | | 02/27/2007 | 309 |
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 | This photo was taken from the camera pit in Thunderbird on March 28, 1944. The target was an airfield at Dijon, France. Bomb strikes can be seen in one area of buildings. A following group of fortresses wiped out the next group of buildings, while a third group demolished the third group of buildings. The airfield was completely destroyed. | | 09/26/2007 | 466 |
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 | Jean Salis airfield
Jean Baptiste Salis has started to collect old airplanes in Cerny La Ferté-Alais where he creates the airfield between the two world wars. All the collection is destroyed during the conflict. His son Jean starts all over in 1972, rebuilding and restoring old airplanes. Today with 68 machines it is the most important flying museum in France. Every year, during ... | | 10/30/2008 | 48 |
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 | High oblique photograph showing bombs bursting on newly-built hangars on the airfield at Desvres, France, during an attack by 6 Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs of No. 110 Squadron RAF, ('Circus' operation). | | 08/17/2008 | 224 |
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 | Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) B.8 near Sommervieu, Normandy, France.
The airfield was completed by 22 June 1944 and was 1200m lond and 40m wide.
Some british squadrons (39 Recce Wing (400,168), 74 Squadron, 145 Wing (329,340,341)) were stationed here after the invasion. | | 06/03/2007 | 503 |
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 | Bataan Airfield was a former wartime United States Army Air Forces airfield on Luzon in the Philippines. It was overrun by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of the Philippines (1942). The airfield was located near the village of Lucanin, south Lamao in Bataan Provience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Airfield | | 07/21/2009 | 89 |
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 | Tatoi Airfield, north of Athens.
This is a military airfield with an aeroclub. | | 10/22/2006 | 255 |
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 | This abandoned airfield was the former factory airfield of the Taylorcraft Corporation, a light aircraft manufacturer with a tumultuous history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylorcraft | | 03/18/2007 | 270 |
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 | Maleme airfield - the key to winning the battle for Crete. By the end of the first day Student had been receiving news of nothing but failure. Only at Maleme was there a glimmer of hope. The 3rd Parachute Regiment had secured neither Canea nor Galatas; the 2nd Parachute Regiment had captured a hill overlooking Retimo airfield, but had taken heavy casualties doing so; and the 1st Parachute Regim... | | 10/09/2007 | 573 |
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