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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: SuBWaYCH on July 29, 2008, 07:42:31 PM
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I, myself, live near Republic's Farmingdale P-47 manufacturing plant. I"m about 20-30 mins away.
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<--Lives in a Boeing WW-2 stick house ... is that close enough ???
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We just did this like last week.
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There is two ww2 air strips pretty close to me. One in Deland and one in Sanford, Florida.
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i live 5 minutes from a B17 training base
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<<<<< 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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<<<<< 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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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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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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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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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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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.
No country in it's right mind would attack San Diego.
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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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<----lives next to camp pendelton, a major marine base
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i live near claresholm ab its abandoned but was used by the RCAF during ww2
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You work for Piper? At least I think they are still based there.
No. Piper has not had a plant there since 1985. It was however the production plant for the navajo and larger twin line. I happen to work for an avionics company based there.
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Sydney harbour and Japans midget submarine attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Sydney_Harbour
<S>...-Gixer
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I live in a city that was bombed heavily by allies:
(http://www.057info.hr/images/vijesti/orginal/Zadar_panorama_1165221899.jpg)
(http://www.zadaretro.info/bombardiranje/bespuca/photo/29.11.43_velika.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Zadar_in_World_War_II
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Biggin Hill
Up the RAF!
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According to historical information, the 448th Bomb Group (Heavy)-B24J Liberators were activated at Gowen Field in Boise, Idaho, 60 miles SE of my location.
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Half an hour away was an airbase, where RAF aircraft went sub-hunting as early as 1940.
In one of their first flight they actually captured a German Submarine. It was only one aircraft that got it done to submission, the RN took over as soon as they were there.+
BTW, our local church was taken over by the Brits and used as a place for possible wounded and various stores.
Without any trouble ;)
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I'm about 10 minutes away from Fort Drum. B believe it was called Camp Drum when WW2 was going on. Home of the 10th Mountain division.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/10th_Mountain_Division_SSI.svg/440px-10th_Mountain_Division_SSI.svg.png)
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I live right by where the built the Higgings Boats, (LCVP) and the PT boats too
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I live within 12 miles of Chino Air Park where the famous museum is of WW2 aircraft , and 2 miles from an old Home Depot Store that was an aircraft plant in Fullerton , Ca. although I'm not sure what they built , but its 3 stories deep in the ground with heavy re-enforced floors and other odd structerial stuff all around .
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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.
No country in it's right mind would attack San Diego.
I live in Virgina Beach. Within 30 miles of here we have the Norfolk Naval Base, Little Creek amphib base, Oceana Naval Air Station, Damn Neck Naval Station, Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Ft Monroe, Ft Eustis, Ft Story, Langley AFB, Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown, Coast Guard Integrated Support Command Portsmouth (Six medium endurance cutters and a bunch of smaller craft) Coast Guard 5th District Command Center, CIA Training Center Yorktown "The Farm", and just down the road in NC we have Blackwater International HQ.
We could take San Diego if we wanted too :D
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I'm about 10 minutes away from Fort Drum. B believe it was called Camp Drum when WW2 was going on. Home of the 10th Mountain division.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/10th_Mountain_Division_SSI.svg/440px-10th_Mountain_Division_SSI.svg.png)
Until 1984 the 10th was based out of Camp Hale in Colorado.
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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
HILTS... Cooler!
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The army did tank maneuvers not far from here near Ft. Smith, AR.
ROX
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I grew up eight miles from here.
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd235/ARC138th/WagnerField_EglinAFB_James_Dolittle.jpg)
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd235/ARC138th/image013.jpg)
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd235/ARC138th/B25satWagnerfield.jpg)
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I used to live near the former Lowry AFB where they did Norton bomb site testing in WW2.
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Some interesting stuff you guys have!
I'm a couple of short bus rides from a former Canadian De Havilland plant where they built many of the Allies' Mosquitoes.
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<---Live just a few miles from Pearl Harbor and several other historic sites.
Work in Guam, Saipan, Palau, Trukk, Phonepei, Kosrae, Kwajalein, Majuro, Manilla, and Japan in addition to Hawaii.
DJ229 - AIR MAFIA
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Live in Staten Island, NY. About 1 hour away from U.S.S Intrepid.
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I live in Philippines!! I am only a hour flight from any of the Famous Battles sites like Corregidor,Bataan,Clark field, Leyte Island and Leyte Gulf. I live where the one of the Battles of
Leyte Gulf took place. I live in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte Province on Mindanao Island. My wife province is on Dinagat Island where the Battle for Surigao Strait took place on the early morning hours of Oct.25th,1944 took place. Her village is straight across from where the American PT Boats first started the attack on the Japanese Southern Force.
Also on the northern beaches of Surigao you can see Leyte Island. In fact Leyte Island is just about an hour from where I live by boat. So I live where some of the greatest battles took place. Especially the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Kabayo
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Currently Live in Urbana Ohio & did work for Grimes aerospace. They made just about all interior & exterior lighting on all American manufactured aircraft during WW11. At one point 85% of all aircraft lighting came from Urbana.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._312_Squadron_RAF
i live about 10 mins drive from liverpool airport(JL airport) where the 312 squadron where based at the start of battle of britan
they where Czechoslovakian squadron and they flew the Hurricane Mk. I- and shot down a ju88 over liverpool by Alois Vašátko :salute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Va%C5%A1%C3%A1tko