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Offline SuBWaYCH

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Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« on: July 29, 2008, 07:42:31 PM »
I, myself, live near Republic's Farmingdale P-47 manufacturing plant. I"m about 20-30 mins away.

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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2008, 08:32:04 PM »
<--Lives in a Boeing WW-2 stick house ... is that close enough ???
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2008, 08:37:58 PM »
We just did this like last week.
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2008, 08:46:28 PM »
There is two ww2 air strips pretty close to me. One in Deland and one in Sanford, Florida.
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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2008, 08:47:16 PM »
i live 5 minutes from a B17 training base
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2008, 09:01:47 PM »
<<<<<  Work on a WWII B-26 training base in Lakeland FL and have a B-17 training base about and hour away in Sebring FL.  Course stories I've heard from WWII pilots about MacDill Air Force base in WWII aren't the greatest.  "One a day in Tampa Bay," was the saying regardign students and crashes.
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2008, 09:29:16 PM »
<<<<<  Work on a WWII B-26 training base in Lakeland FL and have a B-17 training base about and hour away in Sebring FL.  Course stories I've heard from WWII pilots about MacDill Air Force base in WWII aren't the greatest.  "One a day in Tampa Bay," was the saying regardign students and crashes.

You work for Piper? At least I think they are still based there.
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2008, 09:55:15 PM »
I, myself, live near Republic's Farmingdale P-47 manufacturing plant. I"m about 20-30 mins away.



I BELIEVE millville nj was a p47 training base.
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2008, 09:56:12 PM »
There is two ww2 air strips pretty close to me. One in Deland and one in Sanford, Florida.

sounds like you're near orlando.

i think orlando international used to be a major air force base too
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« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2008, 10:03:40 PM »
I just joined the Yankee Air Museum and we are located at Willow Run Airport.   In WWII, it housed the Ford Motor Company plant that built B-24's every 59 minutes at it's peak. 

I'm now in the process of helping them turn a PBY4 Single tail to a B-24 for an accurate static display. 
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2008, 10:37:03 PM »
I live ON training grounds that General George S. Patton Jr. used to run maneuvers on during World War II. As the crow flies, the sign noting that is about a mile from my back door. We have historical signs all over the state. This whole area was also a major battleground during the Civil War (known around here as the "War of Northern Aggression :t ). The military sciences building at the local college (MTSU) was the one at the center of all the controversy recently because some little twit wanted General Nathan Bedford Forrest's name removed. REJECTED, and also DENIED!  :t
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2008, 10:50:37 PM »
I live in San Diego.  We have 32nd St. Naval Station.  Across the bay there's Coronado Island Air Station where the Carriers tie up.  A little south west, in the same bay, is the Submarine Base.  Then there's Mira Mar Marine Air Station 10 miles to the north and Camp Pendelton Marine Base 50 miles north of San Diego. 

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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2008, 12:55:00 AM »
sounds like you're near orlando.

i think orlando international used to be a major air force base too

Na Daytona Beach, but close enough.
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« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2008, 01:13:47 AM »
<----lives next to camp pendelton, a major marine base
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Re: Historical WW2 sites that you live near.
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2008, 01:19:54 AM »
i live near claresholm ab its abandoned but was used by the RCAF during ww2