Re: Air Bases

["J.E. Ballow" <bballow@motion.net>]

Does anyone remember a small airfield called Dogpatch? It might have been in
the vicinity of Andong. Also, when did A-830, south east of Taegu come into
existance?.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: Air Bases


>
> >John,
>
> > >>Why so many airfields? <<
>
> The closer you are to the front, the shorter the flying time. And the
front
> moved back and forth during 1950/1951.
>
> As you may have noticed, many of the airfields are in North Korea.  And
> many of the airfields were not major fields but were good enough to fly
> C-47/C-46, F-51s and other prop aircraft from.
>
> As for K-57, Kwangju, it wasn't built until late in the war and only after
> ROKA established a major training base there.
>
> Ed
>
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>