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A little research turned up the specific airfield at Ramitelli where the Tuskegee Airmen were stationed. Also found a good link for all the airfields in Italy. Good info for anyone who wishes to create airfields for FSX.

http://www.ronaldv.nl/abandoned/airfiel ... basso.html
For those doing Spitfire repaints looking for something unique, there are rare photos of Yugoslav Partisan Spitfire Mk5s at Canne, Italy in the above link.

Tuskegee turf:
http://wikimapia.org/16385626/Ramitelli-airfield

And here is the Ramitelli location in FSX:

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Not the Tuskegee Airmen, but the 325th FG "Checkertails"... There's still a classic opportunity for someone to do the airbase at Lesina, Italy, as part of it is still visible on Google Earth. Unfortunately not so much on Bing!, so it's harder to do for those of us who struggle to get Google Earth images to show in SBuilderX, but it's definitely still locatable. You will have to exclude a very much post war Autostrade (motorway/freeway) which runs through the middle of the airfield site, though.

http://jim.matheny.net/325/lesina.html

http://www.325thfg.org/Lesina.htm

Ian P.

It's all part of the Foggia complex of airfields. They were all huddled close to each other. Ramitelli was the 332nd. They all seemed to surround that big upheaval of land at the "dog's heel" on the Italian boot. I have only researched the Tuskegee group, the 332nd, to do my repaints, but I gather that Doolittle moved all of his fighter groups to Italy and left the bomber groups in Africa. (Is that accurate?) There was a "Foggia Complex" of airfields that would make a great project for some talented historians to tackle. Hint hint, Ian...

Now that I've mentioned Doolittle, I think I need to get off here and search for a good book about him. Hoping he wrote an auto-bio. He and General Chennault were like the General Pattons of the air. And Doolittle went on record to oppose the bombing of Monte Cassino, if I remember right. I admire that.

John

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Hey Mountain;

Nice catch especially since I formed the " Virtual Tuskegee Airmen " site should be up this weekend...you get my pm also...

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http://www.virtualtuskegeeairmen.com

Misaimed, I'm afraid. Southern Italy is well outside my knowledge base to do anything even vaguely accurate. Sorry!

Ian P.

Doolittle left shortly after the formation of the 15th AF and was replaced by Nathan Twining.
Most of the bombardment groups were moved to the Foggia Airfield complexes in late 1943.

More about it here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Ai ... rld_War_II

http://www.2ndbombgroup.org/15thAirForce.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Farragut_Twining

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Video of my dad on a B-17(So you can kind of meet him-he passed away in 2004)
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Twinning, twinning.... That name rings a bell. Was he the twit that replaced Chennault? Or is it another clod I'm thinking about? If it wasn't Twinning, it was some other twit of the highest order - when the 15th moved in after the US joined the fight and took over the Flying Tigers. It was a total political and military debacle what happened in China when America entered the war. After reading about Chennault, Chiang Kai-shek & Lady Kai-Shek and the Flying Tigers, I am convinced that if the Air Force had handled matters in China better, and not turned their nose at the Kai-Sheks, then China would never have become communist. There is a HUGE chapter there in history that most are not aware of, and affects the World to this day. And it all goes back to the days of the Flying Tigers. Quite amazing...

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Thanks for the links, JJ. Definitely not Twinning I'm thinking about. It was someone else. Some thin little character of a man with a predisposition toward China. And I'm probably getting the 15th mixed up with some other number. I need to head off to bed before I can research stuff and make myself sound smarter. Was it the 14th AF? I'm a sleep dog at the moment. But thanks for the links, always...

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