Airfield Construction film

Hi,

I hope this link is ok? I'm never sure what I can and can't link to!

Some interesting scenes of an airfield under construction.

Mike

Thanks. Excellent! Typhoon is from 245 Sqn based at B.5 - Camilly. But it may have diverted in with problems, as could the Spits and P-51, so the ALG could be one of the other B-strips close to the beach head.

Very good indeed ! But is it just me ? or is there no sound with this.

airfields wrote:

Very good indeed ! But is it just me ? or is there no sound with this.

There is no sound, or we've both gone deaf?

Ive just reread Alan Whickers book about his time in wwii with AFPU(Army Film and Photographic Unit) and the government would not pay for them to have sound equiptment, so thats why theres no sound!!!

I have lifted the info below from another site which explains the presence of the Typhoon. As B-3 was the first ALG to open the Typoon would have been operating from HOLMSLEY SOUTH.
TED

St.Croix-sur-Mer
49°19'11"N 000°31'09"W

runway: ../.. - 1200x40m/3600x120feet - SMT

Airfield St.Croix-sur-Mer (Advanced Landing Ground B.3 St.Croix-sur-Mer) was an Allied wartime airfield in Normandy, France.
The airfields construction by a Royal Engineers Airfield Construction Group began just after after D-Day.
The group built a runway and dispersal areas, while communications facilities were provided by equipment installed in vehicles.
It was located between the villages of St.Croix-sur-Mer, Crépon and Ver-sur-Mer.
ALG B-3 became the first ALG in Normandy in the morning of 10 June, but the planned opening did not proceed as foreseen.
While the press was waiting for the formal first landing of Air Vice Marshall Harry Broadhurst and 144 Wing (Canadian), a damaged Typhoon bearing empty rocket rails and a vibrating motor arrived instead to christen the new landing ground, thereby claiming the historic moment.
The pilot was a Flying Officer Bill Smith from 245Sqn, RAF, who decided B.3 was the best location to land his Flak damaged Typhoon.

Excellent! Thanks for the info.

ted wrote:

St.Croix-sur-Mer 49°19'11"N 000°31'09"W

Apols for drifting the thread, but does anyone have any clues to the four "concrete pads" (?) located at 0.5 miles WNW from Ted's co-ordinates?

These perhaps?

www.panoramio.com/photo/25823848

here is a pic of one of them, go into google earth , use the clock and it will bring them up and some images you can open.
TED

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