Mystery land

[MineSweeper]

Name this location.......[;)]

[Charbroiled]

Johnson Island?

[Feinder]

FFS

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: MineSweeper

Name this location.......[;)]

I have seen that one before on the forum... Can´t remember though. Someone made a picture with three dozen B-17s on it... I bet someone will answer your question shortly...

[MineSweeper]

Correct......

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Feinder

FFS

Feinder seems to be right... [:D]

here´s another shot...

[cantona2]

Its a a floating airfield [X(]

[qgaliana]

Looks like a good place for digging in a reinforced division and a couple of squadrons of twin engined torpedo bombers [:D]

[MineSweeper]

Need to get the Seabees to make it a Level 9 airfield.....[:D]

[niceguy2005]

What is FFS?

I wonder what happens to that airfield after a large storm comes through.[X(]

[MineSweeper]

French frigate Shoals.....[;)]

[AmiralLaurent]

French Frigate Shoals... between Hawaii and Midway. In WITP could be used for 150 AC before overcrowding...

[Feinder]

I recall reading an article that it actually was bigger than that little spit that you see in the photo, during WW2.  Naturally, it was bit of land and surrouding shallows.  During the war, they built it up quite a bit, and created the AF.  It was also -maintained-.  However, the "normal" state of erosion has melted away pretty much everything but the runway.  I doubt the fully operational island was very much to begin with, but the picture of just the runway is a little misleading.

If you pull up pics of Baker (max AF-4) and Canton (max AF-5) islands in WitP (everybody's PBEM favorites), they're (also) quite tiny.
-F-

[MarcA]

ORIGINAL: qgaliana

Looks like a good place for digging in a reinforced division and a couple of squadrons of twin engined torpedo bombers [:D]

You may laugh but check this out

http://grafx.letarc.net/ffsavion/c123wide.jpg

Someone might be able to help me out here, but wasn't there also some underground barracks?

[Big B]

ORIGINAL: MineSweeper

French frigate Shoals.....[;)]

I understand that the native gooney birds petitioned to have the name changed to "Freedom Frigate Shoals" a couple of years ago - but the idea was apparently dropped....

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: mantill

ORIGINAL: qgaliana

Looks like a good place for digging in a reinforced division and a couple of squadrons of twin engined torpedo bombers [:D]

You may laugh but check this out

http://grafx.letarc.net/ffsavion/c123wide.jpg

Someone might be able to help me out here, but wasn't there also some underground barracks?

Complete with scuba gear and acquarium.[:D]

[Gem35]

I had a different take on what FFS meant...... being this is a family forum I'll keep that to myself.[:-]

[qgaliana]

ORIGINAL: mantill

ORIGINAL: qgaliana

Looks like a good place for digging in a reinforced division and a couple of squadrons of twin engined torpedo bombers [:D]

You may laugh but check this out

http://grafx.letarc.net/ffsavion/c123wide.jpg

Someone might be able to help me out here, but wasn't there also some underground barracks?

No doubt the runway is huge, but the hangar space leaves something to be desired. At least the gun emplacements will have good sitelines. [:)]

Seriously, not trying to restart a brouhaha over WITP mechanics. I've seen these pictures before and they're pretty cool - I'd prefer to appreciate the real life challenges of running a station on a tiny spit of sand.

You can see from the square corners how the landing strip is longer than the original land mass. Given enough fill, concrete and some heavy equipment they can build islands (I live near one). With proper precautions you can dig below the water table. But it's not a trivial task. Cost-benefit ratio puts this sort of project mostly in the hands of experimental science, desperate militaries, or mad visionaries.

[rockmedic109]

".....Cost-benefit ratio puts this sort of project mostly in the hands of experimental science, desperate militaries, or mad visionaries."


I suspect that mad visionaries describes just about everyone here.

[Speedysteve]

ORIGINAL: AmiralLaurent

French Frigate Shoals... between Hawaii and Midway. In WITP could be used for 150 AC before overcrowding...

LOL