Piardoba Airfield is an abandoned airfield in India, located 6.6 miles (10.7 km) S of Bishnupur, West Bengal, Bankura District in the state of West Bengal...
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North Field (Tinian) (redirect from North Airfield (Tinian))
North Field was a World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Abandoned after the war, today North Field is a tourist attraction. Along with...
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echelons arrived in India in December 1943 to organize the building of airfields in India and China. Thousands of Indians labored to construct four permanent...
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Saipan International Airport (redirect from Isley Airfield (Saipan))
Mariana Islands. The airport is owned by Commonwealth Ports Authority. Its airfield was previously known as Aslito (during the Japanese South Seas Mandate)...
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Central Field (Iwo Jima) (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Occupied Japan)
airfield on Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands, located in the Central Pacific. The Bonin Islands are part of Japan. Today, the base is the only airfield on...
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Mapper - IATA and ICAO codes List of Indian Air Force Stations at GlobalSecurity.org [1]-AAI NOTAM summary January 2013 [2] - Old airfields of Midnapore...
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Calcutta to bring them up to B-29 standards. Five airfields were selected on 17 November: Bishnupur, Piardoba, Kharagpur, Kalaikunda and Chakulia. Wolfe's...
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Dinjan Airfield, also known as Dinjan Air Force Station, is an air base of Indian Air Force. Established as an air field in World War II, it is located...
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Bengal Kangsabati Project Manasa chali Mejia Thermal Power Station Piardoba Airfield People Bauri Bagdi Bengalis Bhumij Dom Hari Mahisya Santal people...
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Andersen Air Force Base (redirect from North Airfield (Guam))
the Allied assault on Okinawa, groups of the 314th Bomb Wing attacked airfields from which the Japanese were sending out suicide planes against the invasion...
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Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (redirect from Shwangliu Airfield)
II with the Pearl Harbor attack, the airport became known as "Shwangliu Airfield" as it was later used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourteenth Air...
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Bengal Kangsabati Project Manasa chali Mejia Thermal Power Station Piardoba Airfield People Bauri Bagdi Bengalis Bhumij Dom Hari Mahisya Santal people...
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November 1968, UH-1F Tail No 65-07942 operating from Ban Me Thuot East Airfield was shot down near Phu Nhai Village, Rotanokiri Province, Cambodia, 16 km...
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Bengal Kangsabati Project Manasa chali Mejia Thermal Power Station Piardoba Airfield People Bauri Bagdi Bengalis Bhumij Dom Hari Mahisya Santal people...
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Harmon Air Force Base (redirect from Harmon Airfield)
Air Force Base is a former World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield, and postwar United States Air Force Base on Guam in the Mariana Islands...
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Operation Iceberg, the invasion of Okinawa. It struck Miyazaki Airfield and Kanoya Airfield, bases from which kamikaze attacks were being launched. These...
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training base over Great Bend Army Air Field, Kansas, and Mountain Home Army Airfield, Idaho, because of its remoteness. On 14 September 1944, the 393d Bombardment...
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Fenny Airfield Hathazari Airfield Asansol Airfield Chakulia Airfield Piardoba Airfield Guskhara Airfield Dudhkundi Airfield Pandaveswar Airfield Charra...
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Chakulia Airport (redirect from Chakulia Airfield)
has been non-operational since it served during World War II. Chakulia Airfield was built by the British Construction Contractor Mr. Digar Pramotha Nath...
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Bengal Kangsabati Project Manasa chali Mejia Thermal Power Station Piardoba Airfield People Bauri Bagdi Bengalis Bhumij Dom Hari Mahisya Santal people...
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Kalaikunda Air Force Station (redirect from Kalaikunda Airfield)
echelons arrived in India in December 1943 to organize the upgrading of the airfield and thousands of Indians labored to upgrade the facility for Superfortress...
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Bengal Kangsabati Project Manasa chali Mejia Thermal Power Station Piardoba Airfield People Bauri Bagdi Bengalis Bhumij Dom Hari Mahisya Santal people...
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Bengal Kangsabati Project Manasa chali Mejia Thermal Power Station Piardoba Airfield People Bauri Bagdi Bengalis Bhumij Dom Hari Mahisya Santal people...
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West Field (Tinian) (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II)
West Field is a former World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Today, West Field is used as the civilian Tinian International Airport....
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its base in India on 2 April 1944. In India, existing airfields at Kharagpur, Chakulia, Piardoba and Dudkhundi had been converted for B-29 use. All of...
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securing of the Port Lyautey airfield on 10 November the launch from Chenango began and was successful but the airfield's runways were so damaged that...
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diverted from strategic operations when it conducted a series of raids on airfields in Kyushu to support Operation Iceberg, the landings on Okinawa in April...
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XXI Bomber Command (section Airfield construction)
newly constructed combat airfields on Saipan, Tinian and Guam began in April 1944. The construction and defense of the airfields would be the United States...
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