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“Military Airfield: Restricted Area
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“So you’re saying that there’s an abandoned hidden airfield und the Japanese never found it?”
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Then it was a fishing village with a small airfield, a few dusty streets, and narrow roads that connected only to other lower Baja communities
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Fair enough you say but why is this different from any other war where vertical deployment took place? Numbers mostly and the fact that these troops were not used during fireforce duties for anything else but fireforce! They would live on the airfield next to the dedicated helicopters or para Dakota's and be used as shock troops only
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As of mid-November, the UNITA/SADF force had destroyed the Cuito Cuanavale airfield and pinned down thousands of FAPLA's best remaining units clinging onto the town's defensive perimeters
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I was to fly top cover in the cone above the enemy airfield, where air defense is oddly quite thin
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We fly to a certain airfield, refuel, and launch from there
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as he prepared to leave Kandahar airfield on a Blackhawk helicopter
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Is there an airfield in Springbok where we can keep the chopper?”
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After a short drive the following day to the local airfield, they boarded the hired helicopter which Rick handled with the greatest of ease and confidence
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"Not commercial this time—a lease picking us up at a private airfield
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“What's going on the airfield?” he thought to himself as his
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every area, past the terminal and into the airfield
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scanning up and down the airfield
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He glanced at the airfield once again
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clashing together and groans emanated from the airfield
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Batisuta turned and saw, il uminated by the airfield
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“Mythos,” he cal ed weakly into his phone, “I'm in the airfield,”
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airfield and saw that several hooded figures were stood by the
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veered into the airfield
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sped and out of the airfield
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through the airfield barriers and onto the streets of Neve
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what happened in the airfield dawned on him
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“I believe we have unfinished business in the airfield, Theodore
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I'll be out of the airfield in a few minutes,
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Jacob was in his control room in the tower watching on the radar which was patched through from his airfield office
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The chopper group had assembled on an old unused wartime airfield about 15 minutes from the island
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There were several small buildings and a couple of hangers dotted around the airfield plus several bus loads of people who had been brought in to witness the Rhodesian government’s latest acquisition
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Robert Smith had driven them to a private airfield where they boarded a small Cessna and flew across the border back into Rhodesia where they headed towards the coast and a waiting oil tanker
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There were armed guards at the gate and towers stood at intervals around the perimeter of the airfield
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It was furnished with luxurious quilted leather seating and a large desk near a wide window overlooked the airfield
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Siri’s convoy of military vehicles could be seen below, parked in a square just outside the building, and several vertical take off and landing x planes were arranged along the airfield
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Hatch commented to Siri, ‘I wish he could be a little more relaxed when he’s away from his men,’ and wandered over to the window and stared across the airfield, unfocused, as his mind drifted, reliving the past
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As she approached the main guard gate the ambulances and fire trucks could be heard racing across the airfield, heading for the plume of smoke billowing up from the northeast corner of the field
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I remember gazing at the airplanes landing and taking off at the airfield beside our house
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Our destination will be Oslo, which we are tasked to defend along with its airfield at Fornebu
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At the assigned hour, he jumped in a military bus with his kit and weapons, along with the divisional commander and eight other officers, to go to the nearby military airfield
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Otto Skorzeni was driving a VW Kubbelwagen14 towards the Fornebu airfield, where he was to meet a Luftwaffe staff officer to resolve a problem with air shipment of critical spare parts, when he heard the first gunfire
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Being still a good kilometer away from the airfield, he immediately slowed down and got off the road, driving his car inside the forest bordering the road before stopping and shutting off the engine
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Heavy exchanges of fire could now be heard from the direction of the airfield as Otto grabbed his StG-41 assault rifle and jumped out of his vehicle
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The big SS man then started jogging cautiously towards the airfield, using the cover of trees and bushes along the way
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Backing away quietly, Otto then went around their position and continued towards the airfield
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Once he could see the airfield through the trees, he turned right and followed the tree line to get close to the headquarters building, his objective
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In the process, he saw a number of British paratroopers walking or running around the airfield
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Hills West of Fornebu Airfield
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George Townsend drearily looked at the long line of wounded soldiers lying on the ground, both British and Canadian, then down at Fornebu Airfield, only two kilometers away but out of reach
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The Germans, supported by heavy TIGER tanks and armored halftracks, had evicted the Anglo-Canadian forces from the airfield yesterday, following fighting of a rare ferocity
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They were now in a standoff, with the Anglo-Canadians unable to retake the airfield and the Germans unable to use it as long as the Canadians’ mortars were within range of it
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Only now was the high command starting to transfer squadrons of jet fighters to the captured airfield near Stavanger, realizing belatedly that fighters based in England did not have enough range to be able to provide adequate air cover to the British and Canadian troops now in Norway
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“We still have not retaken Fornebu Airfield? And what is the R
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We also had a number of accidents on landing in Sola: the airfield there is too small for them
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Otto then spent a couple of minutes to describe what he had seen in the communications room of Fornebu airfield, giving Nancy precise dates and times
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What you will see happened on the morning of August 28, in the communications room of Fornebu Airfield in Norway
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“Try the airfield in Northolt
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spaceships made a silent high-speed flyby over the airfield
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That night, I escaped from the hospital and stole a plane at the nearby Tempelhof airfield, to arrive safely in England in the early morning
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The place looked nothing like an airfield to her, accustomed as she was to brightly lit astroports
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You should see the refugee camp that was set up in a corner of this airfield: it is full of people who can now laugh, cherish their families and enjoy life
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Looking around him, he saw what appeared to be a standard military airfield, with its wide grassy surface and hangars
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The first thing that the few remaining employees of the airfield at Le Bourget saw were four scoutships approaching at a dizzying speed, low over the horizon
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Remembering what had happened six days ago in Paris when such ships were seen, the French cheered wildly and without fear, since the Germans had departed in great haste from the airfield yesterday
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As the scoutships slowed down, they split up and each overflew specific installations of the airfield
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About 200 silhouettes then jumped out from the tail end of the scoutships and, gliding smoothly down, dispersed around the airfield
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As the soldier said that, the biggest flying thing the janitor had ever seen appeared out of nowhere over the airfield and landed vertically on a dozen giant landing legs
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Two huge ramps lowered from the ship’s belly and long columns of wheeled and tracked vehicles started rolling down on the airfield
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A bright wall of energy then swept the whole of the airfield in a few seconds, passing through the Tower ALPHA and Farah’s office before continuing to expand outward
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Ken and Ingrid, both numb from the series of long airplane trips that had brought them to the Philippines, gladly stepped out of the PBY Catalina amphibian aircraft and looked around the airfield, which was surrounded by dense tropical jungle
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Ingrid could barely contain her excitement as the taxi that she had taken dropped her in front of a hangar in Nielson Field, an airfield that served both as the official Manila airport and as the location for the headquarters of the United States Far East Army Air Force
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Twenty planes were destroyed on the ground by machinegun fire at Naha Airfield, while the troopships loading up combat supplies and troops in the harbor were all either sunk or heavily damage
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It was dark when Major Bandong’s staff car arrived at the Batangas Airfield, near the coast
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Two Filipino soldiers on guard duty at the main gate of the airfield examined briefly their papers before saluting and letting them pass
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The first thing that Ingrid did in the morning on waking up was to go look outside of the hut, to inspect visually the airfield
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There were also the wrecks of many P-26 fighters along the periphery of the airfield, having been either destroyed on the ground or cannibalized for parts
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About a hundred technicians and soldiers were visible around the airfield, including many men around three groups of big wooden crates hidden by camouflage nets besides the tree line
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The Filipino soldiers and ground technicians around the airfield waved their arms with enthusiasm to salute the two pilots as they took off
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50 caliber heavy machineguns defending this sector of the airfield quickly reacted at that order
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They hit a Japanese airfield on Hainan Island, on the Chinese coast, this morning and are going through their stocks of bombs quickly
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They were about to approach their planes to do a summary check of them when what looked like a convoy of civilian cars escorted by three armed jeeps and led by a big army staff car flying a red pennant with three stars on it rolled on the airfield
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The anti-aircraft guns were still firing at maximum rate, sending over 200 shells per minute in the sky, as the KATEs started lobbing their bombs all over the airfield
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The light bomb load capacity of the Japanese planes, combined with the spoiling effect of the fire from the guns, helped limit the damages to the airfield
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Once out of bombs, the Japanese air armada then turned back and withdrew towards the East, leaving the shaken Americans to look over the damage to their airfield
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Major General Lewis Brereton looked around with sadness at the crowded room of the infirmary serving the airfield
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The facilities at the airfield appeared to be minimal but the mass of planes and materiel cluttering the field made her swear
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‘’What I mean is that the ones in charge of this airfield seem to have learned nothing from the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant Redmond
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’’ Replied at once Ingrid, who was getting more furious by the minute as she looked at the close to twenty four-engine transport planes lined up as if on parade on the airfield
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She looked through the window for a few minutes, examining the airfield around the infirmary
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Darwin is by far the Australian airfield and port nearest the Philippines and would constitute a logical base for an air bridge
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Sneed’s response had been that there was not enough space around the airfield to properly disperse his planes, which was partially true
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Swearing to herself about the poor level of discipline on this airfield, Ingrid finally decided to walk away
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Thankfully, none of the men followed her and she started on a quick-paced walk around the airfield
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As she had covered about one third of the length of the perimeter and was passing near the piles of supplies haphazardly dropped in one corner of the airfield, she saw between the widely spaced small trees a nearly naked man with dark skin that was looking at her with apparent curiosity
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Walking behind the aborigine, Ingrid waited to be hidden from the airfield by the trees, then stopped briefly to take off her T-shirt, tying it around her waist before resuming her walk with her torso bare, happy to be able to freely soak some sunrays
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Ingrid returned alone to the airfield more than three hours later, feeling good about having been able to get back in touch with her old aborigine roots
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According to the history known by Nancy Laplante, the Japanese attacked by air Darwin, using a number of fleet carriers, and bombed the hell out of this airfield and the port area
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You can follow me around and use your experience of combat with the Japanese to counsel me on how to prepare this airfield for an air attack
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To Ingrid’s fury, but not to her surprise, the Australian commander and the RAAF staff of the airfield all but ignored the warning passed by Sneed, discounting it as ‘misidentification of some allied plane’
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Worse, the local commander refused to lend the help of his men to the efforts at dispersing the American planes and equipment presently on his airfield, calling it a waste of time and effort
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Adding to Ingrid’s fury, and also to that of Colonel Sneed, was the fact that the Australians on the airfield, on top of refusing to help, also mocked the Americans running around them and working to disperse as much equipment and supplies as possible before the next morning
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Once the planes that had returned from the Philippines had been refueled and had departed for Brisbane, leaving the airfield in Darwin nearly empty of planes, Sneed then concentrated the efforts of his men on dispersing the most dangerous or vulnerable supplies stacked around the airfield, with the priority put on the ammunition and fuel
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Those were trucked to short distances off the airfield and dumped in small, well spaced piles under camouflage nets around the bush