Airfield sizes and history

[m10bob]

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/search/airfields.html


and a bit here:

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/raaf/raaf.htm



A sample from the first site:

6° 16' 60S 150° 19' 60E Located on the south coast of New Britain.

History
Known as Surumi or Tsurumi to the Japanese. Occupied by the Japanese on the night of February 8/9, 1942. The area was developed into a base. On October 2, 1943 a PT-Boat landing party from Kiriwina landed an group of Australian, American and natives at Ablingi Harbor, west of Gasmata to collect intelligence for two weeks, and were then successfully removed. The area was liberated by Australian Army March 28, 1944.

Gasmata Airfield (Surumi, Tsurumi)

October 24, 1942

May 13, 1943

September 9, 1943

December 13, 1943

Brian Bennett 1981

John Douglas 1996

Construction
Single runway, built by an Australian civilian contractor for the nearby plantation prior to the war. Thilenius Harbor is located to the west. The runway was 3,200' (as of October 23, 1943) with taxiways to the side of the strip, and light anti-aircraft guns. Two nearby jetties serviced the strip from the north and west sides of the peninsula. A January 13, 1944 photograph intelligence showed 9 light anti-aircraft guns in Ring Ring village to the north-east of the strip, and 50 fighter dispersal revetments.

Japanese Occupation
Known as Surmi (Surumi or Tsurumi) to the Japanese. After the occupation of Rabaul, this airfield was pressed into service, and expanded as a forward airfield an emergency landing area. The Japanese never stationed a detachment of fighters at Gasmata on any permanent basis, but fighters did stage or land at the strip.

Japanese Units Based At Gasmata
Chitose / 4th Kokutai (A5M4) flight of four February 11, 1942
Mihoro Kokutai (G3M2)
Kanoya Kokutai (G3M2)
Tainan Kokutai (A6M2)
76th Dokuritsu Chutai (Ki-46)

Allied Missions Against Gasmata
February 11, 1942 - February 5, 1944

Wartime Usage
Gasmata was in use as a staging base in March 43 for Operation 81 (Batlte of the Bismarck Sea). In May 1943 it was subjected to very heavy bombing and probably not used thereafter. The Japanese Navy then developed Cape Hoskins on north shore of New Britain.

Australian Liberation
The Gasmata area was abandoned by the Japanese in mid 1943. Australian Army arrived at the airfield on March 28, 1944.


another sample:

Batchelor Field
Location
Lat 13° 4' 0S Long 131° 1' 0E Located to the south of Darwin, connected by a rail road line.

American Units at Bachelor Field
19th BG (B-17) from Del Monte December 17-20, 1942 - December 30, 1941
19th BG, 93rd BS (B-17) from Clark Field December 19 - December 31, 1941

American Usage
In December 1941, Batchelor was a sparse RAAF training base to prevent their distruction in the Philippines and to regroup. Staging base for the 22nd BG's November 2-4, 1942 raids on Dili and Aileu in Timor with B-26 Mauraders. The four B-17s that evacuated General MacArthur, his family and senior staff landed here on March 10, 1942: B-17E 41-2408, B-17E 41-2429, B-17E 41-2434 and B-17E 41-2447.

[akdreemer]

Okay, what is the current max build at Tinian? Saipan? Guam?

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... tinian.htm

"As soon as air service groups prepared the bases for occupancy, hundreds of B-29s began arriving in October and November, ready to undertake strategic bombing operations against the Japanese home islands. An airfield was ready for the first B-29 strike on 24 November. Camps on Tinian were constructed to house 50,000 U.S. troops and 1.2 million pounds of crops were produced, all of which were consumed on the island. By August 1945, a year after construction started, Tinian was the largest airbase in the world at the time, and accommodated nearly 1000 B-29s."

[el cid again]

The largest airbase in the world today is probably on Guam. There are 100,000 bombs stored there. Aircraft parks are so massive even whole units of B-52s look like tiny gatherings. It is difficult to overstate the capability of this field, which I believe is called Anderson AFB (if I am not mixed up).

In the game stock and CHS rate Guam at 1 (Max 4). RHS rates it at 4 (Max 9).

All three rate Saipan as 3 (Max 4); Palau as 3 (Max 3); Rabaul as 3 (Max 5); Lae as 2 (Max 4) and Port Moresby as 3 (Max 5). That probably means CHS and RHS never reviewed these points.

Iwo Jima is rated at 0 (Max 3) in RHS and 1 (Max 3) in CHS and stock.

Tsinan is rated as 3 (Max 4) in RHS and stock, but only 1 (Max 4) in CHS.

Truk is rated as 5 (Max 6 in RHS and stock, but 6 (Max 5) in CHS.

Lunga (Henderson Field) is rated as 0 (Max 2) in RHS but 0 (Max 4) in CHS and stock.

[akdreemer]

A memory refresh in in order. I know that there is a minimum size AB needed for bombers based upon max load (B-29 I beleive needs a level 7)in order to attack with its max load. However, is there a limit on how many aircraft can use the base at one time as part of the code? I also know that the max number of aircraft support squads that the code can utilize in a hex is, IIRC, 256 as per game documentation.

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: AlaskanWarrior

A memory refresh in in order. I know that there is a minimum size AB needed for bombers based upon max load (B-29 I beleive needs a level 7)in order to attack with its max load. However, is there a limit on how many aircraft can use the base at one time as part of the code? I also know that the max number of aircraft support squads that the code can utilize in a hex is, IIRC, 256 as per game documentation.

Just penalties...Nothing prevents you from putting 1,000,000 planes at a base....you just won't operate at peak effieciency.

IIRC if large planes are based at a small base they will not fly to extended range and will only carry an extended range load.

[Herrbear]

ORIGINAL: AlaskanWarrior

A memory refresh in in order. I know that there is a minimum size AB needed for bombers based upon max load (B-29 I beleive needs a level 7)in order to attack with its max load. However, is there a limit on how many aircraft can use the base at one time as part of the code? I also know that the max number of aircraft support squads that the code can utilize in a hex is, IIRC, 256 as per game documentation.

The penalties start when the amount of AC exceed AF size X 50 and then again at AF size X 100.

[el cid again]

That better be wrong! Lots of units have more than 256 support squads - and need them. Hopefully that isn't true any more.

I think there are limits on what code will fly. And there are mission limits. For example, a Level 1 field never launches an attack. But I think it also limits the number of planes per mission. GG loves to put many factors in his algorithms - and most of the sophistication of WITP we never see or hear about. [Like the stuff about rescues Mike Wood eventually told us about] Ah yes - there are penalties when the multiple of planes exceeds 50 times field level.