Bombing Midway from French Frigate

[Speedysteve]

I'll stick to Reading I think. Look at the height of the Landing strip compard to the srrounding sea [X(] At least on a carrier you will much higher above the water.

[Terminus]

Yes, a really big hill in the middle of the sea. Or maybe he was jumping up and down on a pogo stick?

[CapAndGown]

My vote is for the pogo stick. [:D]

[mogami]

Hi, The Japanese airfield at Lunga was to be 2600 feet long. The USA lengthed it to a little less then 4000 feet.

[Feinder]

Gadzooks! That's tiny!

Just curious, why is it then that Lunga is 3 or 4, and can be built to 6(?). Is it the "AF complex" sort of thing, like at PM?

-F-

[mogami]

Hi, Henderson Field

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: Feinder

Gadzooks! That's tiny!

Just curious, why is it then that Lunga is 3 or 4, and can be built to 6(?). Is it the "AF complex" sort of thing, like at PM?

-F-

Think so, besides Henderson Field the US soon operated two more landing strips in the Lunga area, called Fighter-1 and Fighter-2. They started as gras strips and were probably later planked with PSP. Maybe Solomons-Marky can report on their current state and use?

[Terminus]

Think they used Fighter-1 and -2 as dispersal fields when the Japanese bombardment forces came to call.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, Henderson Field

At least at Henderson you can park "some" bombers. I don´t think it´s a must to have a 6000 feet long airstrip it´s important to have the place to park your planes (and facilities to repair them). FFS isn´t a place where you can park and maintain many planes!

[Graycompany]

the Picture used here to show FFS, is really "Tern" island, a man made island located in FFS. It was created in in Mid '42, much of the soil was from dredging to make a seaplane base. The area around FFS would be able to support bigger Airfileds had the need been there, but we all know that Midway didnt fall in real life. If it were to fall in the game we all play, I think it would not be gamey to build it up to sustain what ever you can put on it to bomb midway.

Tern was created by driving in over 5,000 steel pilings, in a 400 by 3,300
foot roughly east to west aircraft carrier shaped manmade island.
( most of this info comes from WWII pacfic Island guide, written by
Gordon L. Rottman.)

Its obvious the the USA had the ability to do this, I dont think its a stretch to imagine had the need been there, they would have made this bigger, along with Johnson Island further south,
think that if

[Sharkosaurus rex]

The photo that Mogami showed us was fom the 1960s after years of disuse dust has covered the FFS real secrets. In WWII FFS had three of the new huge diamond shaped elevators that could carry a B24 on each. The elevators were so powerful huge shock waves violently shook the water of the lagoon (as shown in WWII photo- taken from the nearby hill.) The elevators displaced the planes between the runway and maintance facilities below sea level. A real engineering achievement.

[mogami]

Hi, The photo is a fake. In reality it is the USN's first submarine CV. There are 96 ac in the hangers but you can't see them. The sub CV USS Hunley was visting FFS when this photo was taken. The ship was so secert that no mention of it has ever been released to the public.
Now you know. (better hide [X(])

[Terminus]

Uh oh, the Men in Black will come looking for you now, Mog...[X(]

[Speedysteve]

[Nikademus]

its definately a fake photo. Everyone knows they used a big rubber band attached to two sunken concrete posts in order to catapult those heavy bombers off the runway.

[Tom Hunter]

According to the web site during big storms in the 60s water did pass onto and over the island, in 1969 they evacuated the station by helicopter.

[Bradley7735]

ORIGINAL: Mogami
The sub CV USS Hunley was visting FFS when this photo was taken. The ship was so secert that no mention of it has ever been released to the public.
Now you know. (better hide [X(])

That ship isn't classified as a CV. I believe it's an SSCVN (also the first nuclear sub carrier).

[LargeSlowTarget]

I bet Mog can also tell us who shot Kennedy[:D].

[Terminus]

Yeah, names and adresses of all six of them![;)]

[Speedysteve]

Also WAS Armstrong really the first chappie on the moon?