Pics of Pacific airfields

[warhawker]

I tried searching here but could not find a link to what Pacific airfields looked like for the Japanese and US during WWII? Does anyone have or know where I can see a pic of them?

[Flak Happy]

Watch a few episodes of Ba Ba Black Sheep! ....just a thought

Man I miss that show...

[tmanthegreat]

Only problem with "Baa Baa Black Sheep" is that they filmed it at a small airfield in So Cal, stuck in a few palm trees, bamboo, etc. for the tropical look. There is a conspicuous lack of jungle foliage around the airfield and the hills in the background have dry grass and oaktrees, common in the Tehachapi mountains in southern California. Alot of their transition shots featuring pictures of "Vela La Cava" or "Espritu Santo" islands actually show one or more of the Channel Islands off California's coast

Still, its a great show and I wish the History Channel would resume showing it regularly as they did a few years ago

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As for the look of Pacific island airfields, you may want to research the names of some of the airfields and do a Google Image search for them. Here's the results for a few airfields, of greater or lesser prominence:

Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... a=N&tab=wi

Tinian
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search

Rabaul
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search

Roi airfield
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search

Marcus Island
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search

Hollandia, New Guinea
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search


Hope all this helps

[ostketten]

Still, its a great show and I wish the History Channel would resume showing it regularly as they did a few years ago

Volume one of the show which includes the first 12 episodes of season one is available on DVD... http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewproduct ... Id=5753105
I have it in my video library and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the series. Keep in mind that when TV series like this are shown on cable TV stations like the History channel and others, the episodes are edited down to make room for commercials, in other words an episode that originally had 60 mins. of video run time will be trimmed by as much as 10-15 mins. to accomodate the stations advertisements, so in reality what you see is a 45-50 min. episode. The DVD's on the other hand will have the full 60 mins. (or whatever the originals contained) of airtime, commercial free just as it was taped at the studio. It's no big deal really if you would rather not purchase the DVD's, but it's something to be aware of, because many people don't realize that these are edited like that.

[warhawker]

This info is great but what I am looking for is pics of the corrugated stripes that were put down by seabees for US forces but for Japanese I do not know what they used? Crushed coral, wood beams?

[tmanthegreat]

I know what you mean by cutting out parts of an episode to make it fit I have all the seasons of "The Simpsons" that have been released on DVD thus far (with the ultimate goal of having a complete compilation of the show for when it eventually gets cancelled). Watching some of the episodes on DVD, I was amazed to see all the little scenes that had been cut to make the show fit in its air time, and found myself thinking, I haven't seen that before

[ostketten]

I am looking for is pics of the corrugated stripes that were put down by seabees

The "stripes" you referred to are better known as "Marsden matting", a type of interconnecting perforated steel planking. US forces laid miles of the stuff in WWII, primarily on Pacific Islands, but elsewhere as well. I'm not sure what the Japs did to construct their airfields, but a search of the usual suspects (Google etc.) should turn up some suitable pics and information for you, sorry I can't provide you with direct links at the moment, but as my time permits I'll see what I can turn up for you.

[JimBob55]

Here's some data on Marston matting:

<img src="http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4265 ... ingxr6.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us">

<img src="http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1677 ... ingvy5.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us">

Quite a while back, I dug this up on the internet while I was thinking about doing a base for my ground-based Jolly Roger Corsair at about the same time I did Japanese and American carrier decking bases.

I hope this helps.
JimBob

[Rogue]

I'd love to find some Marsden Mat to put on the ramp in front of my hanger.