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Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: ASTAC on February 13, 2006, 01:22:48 PM

Right next to my neighborhood in Virginia Beach, VA is NAAS Pungo.

I have a geocache hidden here....Clicky (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=7cab9fb0-6484-46ea-810a-360d7302aad5)

commissioned in 1943 as a satellite airfield for nearby Norfolk Naval Air Station.
The station's intended mission was to support operations & training of aircraft intended to operate from escort carriers. A total of 24 such squadrons passed through Pungo during WW2,most consisting of TBF or TBM Avenger torpedo bombers and F4F or FM Wildcat fighters.

The site is a Coast Guard Communications Station (Most of it) and the rest is privately owned.

Anyway Thought I'd post some pictures of some "Pill Boxes" that were in the fields adjacent to the Airfield. These will be destroyed within a week. They are putting a new residential area here. They were pretty clean inside and still in great shape. The job supervisor asked me if I wanted one. But alas I have nowhere to put it.



(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/000_0086.jpg)

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/000_0081.jpg)

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/000_0095.jpg)

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/000_0093.jpg)

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: Furball on February 13, 2006, 01:25:14 PM

nama nama nama nama nama nama nama nama daveman!

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: ASTAC on February 13, 2006, 01:37:52 PM

Navy Auxiliary Air Station Pungo..Then and Now

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/pungo.jpg)

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/Pungo_VA_color.jpg)

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/000_0099.jpg)

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/000_0101.jpg)
Only Aircraft on the field.

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: Stringer on February 13, 2006, 01:58:57 PM

OMG!!..You found Kurt Tank's last project smuggled out of Germany and sent to Pungo for research and reverse engineering!!

It looks to be the training version of the C152missile/rocket, codenamed "Cessna" by the Allies, and named "Blitzkreig Leider-hosen" by the Germans.  It was only rumored to exist, as the war ended before mass production of the prototype could begin.  According to some estimates it could hold as much as 37.5 gallons of rocket fuel and had enough payload capacity for 1 pilot and luggage!

Clearly the Allies did not want this technology to fall into the hands of the Soviets.

Obviously very advanced technology, even in the paint applied.  It still retains it's camouflage paint scheme.

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: ASTAC on February 13, 2006, 02:11:08 PM

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: nirvana on February 13, 2006, 04:35:35 PM

So our airfields used to be clean of all trees then HTC left them alone for 60 years and now we have 200 foot tall trees?

Title: "Blitzkreig Leider-hosen" to AH NOW!
Post by: Toad on February 13, 2006, 04:41:25 PM

This plane should be made operational in AH ASAP.

I heard the prototype was strafed during the war when it was rolled from one hangar to another hangar for the top secret camo paint job. So it saw combat.

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: Saintaw on February 13, 2006, 05:30:28 PM

Wow this is the "feedback" forum content in once sentence(sp?) Toad, bravo :)

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: ASTAC on February 14, 2006, 03:26:16 AM

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Originally posted by nirvana
So our airfields used to be clean of all trees then HTC left them alone for 60 years and now we have 200 foot tall trees?

And within a few feet of the runways too.

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: nuchpatrick on February 14, 2006, 07:55:19 AM

ASTAC

There is another good one out in Suffolk where my uncle lives. It an old Naval Comm's station..its off the Nansemond River..

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: USHilDvl on February 14, 2006, 08:49:36 AM

Anybody get a load of the center-mount cannon muzzle on that "Leider-Hosen" bird?  Must be 8" caliber, at least.

How many rounds you figure it could carry?

We need these in AH, for sure...

;)

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: lazs2 on February 14, 2006, 09:21:45 AM

Iwas thinking...  "what a great place for a racetrack or 4.

lazs

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: Hangtime on February 14, 2006, 09:36:04 AM

Would be a great place to park FEMA trailers... even further from the people that need 'em.

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: ASTAC on February 14, 2006, 12:55:48 PM

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Originally posted by lazs2
Iwas thinking...  "what a great place for a racetrack or 4.

lazs

The one runway that is privately owned is in bad shape..the coast guard ones though..aren't too bad. The local chapter of the SCCA uses the tarmac  for autocross races.

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: Seagoon on February 14, 2006, 03:23:51 PM

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Originally posted by ASTAC
And within a few feet of the runways too.

End the ubertree menace! Bring the Mach 5 with Twin Rotary Saw Blades to AH2!

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: texace on February 14, 2006, 03:38:20 PM

I wonder if the flat tires come standard with that bird. Nazi air must be uber-thin per Hitler's order...

It is much better than British air! Weighs less, and takes up less space!

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: Replicant on February 15, 2006, 02:39:03 PM

Good photos ASTAC.  I love derelict airfields; I have a real fascination of how things once were and in some cases trying to imagine over 1000 personnel working there!  Near where I lived in England the area was littered with former RAF bomber & 9th AF airfields.

Here's an interesting link (http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/06airfields/UK/ukmenu.htm) where you can select an area of the UK.  It then lists all the airfields, including all WW1 & WW2, by airfield name.  If you click on the airfield name it opens up Multimap and shows an aerial photograph of every airfield.  You can make out some airfield runways/taxiways easy but others you have to look a tiny bit harder! :)

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: ASTAC on February 16, 2006, 07:28:30 AM

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Originally posted by Replicant
Good photos ASTAC.  I love derelict airfields; I have a real fascination of how things once were and in some cases trying to imagine over 1000 personnel working there!  Near where I lived in England the area was littered with former RAF bomber & 9th AF airfields.

Here's an interesting link (http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/06airfields/UK/ukmenu.htm) where you can select an area of the UK.  It then lists all the airfields, including all WW1 & WW2, by airfield name.  If you click on the airfield name it opens up Multimap and shows an aerial photograph of every airfield.  You can make out some airfield runways/taxiways easy but others you have to look a tiny bit harder! :)

I too have a fascination with old airfields..I went on google earth and marked out all the ones around my home town..some you can still tell where they were.
Branan Field was the most interesting..unfortunatelyt it was built over recently..but you can still barely see the Octogon outline of some of it.

Jacksonville, Fl WWII Airfields (http://robertdweeks.com/JaxNavyAir.kmz)

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: Nilsen on February 16, 2006, 08:51:35 AM

Those boxes holds alot of pills. How do you keep the pills from spilling out the slots?

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: ASTAC on February 17, 2006, 12:17:55 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Nilsen
Those boxes holds alot of pills. How do you keep the pills from spilling out the slots?

Thats the dispensing slot:D

Title: NAAS PUNGO..abandoned WWII Airfield
Post by: Nilsen on February 17, 2006, 12:26:41 PM

ahhh..

thats real clever! I want one of those :)