Author Topic: more research stuff (Read 804 times)

Dnil · « **Reply #15 on:** January 10, 2003, 03:37:26 AM »

ok here are 2 scans of the gun package and the turret field of fire. Ours in the game is somewhat limited on its field of fire.

Dnil · « **Reply #16 on:** January 10, 2003, 03:38:10 AM »

Dnil · « **Reply #17 on:** January 10, 2003, 03:38:55 AM »

flakbait · « **Reply #18 on:** January 10, 2003, 10:37:36 AM »

The first three are from Jack Broughton's book Thud Ridge. Based both on text and the map of the Hanoi area on page 40-41. I've got a map of the Chinese/Vietnam border that shows where most of the towns are. And the MiG bases are fairly easy to find using Jack's map. The Gia Lam MiG base was mentioned over here on an MIA page. Those are the only four MiG bases I was able to find. I'm pretty sure there was one around Vinh, though. Several other books on Vietnam mention Vinh as being a major supply route and military staging area. Seems like a perfect place to park a few dozen MiG 17's and 21's. Sheer speculation on my part, but I think there was at least one airfield at Vinh.

If you'd like the Chicom/Vietnam border map, just holler. I can mark all the MiG bases on it before e-mailing you a copy.

delta6@bigfoot.com

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Vermillion · « **Reply #19 on:** January 10, 2003, 10:48:03 AM »

flakbait, thanks ! Interesting read on that website. If you can email that map to me at vermillion_c@hotmail.com I'd appreciate it.

I have about 10 different maps from different books showing the locations of all the North Vietnamese airfields, and I have info regarding which units used which base and when.

I guess what I'm looking for are some wide angle aerial recon photo's showing what each (or at least some) of the airfields looked like from the air. I'm figuring I'm going to have to take a trip up to Dayton to the USAF Museum to find them. But I figured that if Dnil was at the Naval Aviation Musuem, he could ask about whats available from the Navy in those regards. I figure there has to be tons of them in the archives somewhere. Just finding and procurring copies may get expensive.

flakbait · « **Reply #20 on:** January 10, 2003, 01:08:41 PM »

No trouble at all Vermin! The map is zipped on my site at the moment, it's too big to E-mail. 307k! Here's the link

MiG Map

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Flakbait [Delta6]
Delta Six's Flight School
Put the P-61B in Aces High

Vermillion · « **Reply #21 on:** January 10, 2003, 06:29:44 PM »

Thanks!