Does this look familiar to anyone?

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jdhaenens

Luddite in Training
Does this place look familiar to anyone?

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It looked like this in an old propaganda film:

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Here's another few shots:

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Panama City would be Rodman I think...been there, but no tee shirts for sale at the time.
 
N2056 said:
Panama City would be Rodman I think...been there, but no tee shirts for sale at the time.
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The base in the Panama Canal Zone was Howard AFB, I don't think it's there anymore. . .at least not as an active US Military Base. The only base I know of in Panama City, Fla. Is Tyndal AFB.:salute:
 
Rodman was/is the navy base there. I really have no idea if an air base is present there.
 
Actually, this is a little place in the back woods of Alabama. Nowadays, it's just a private field called Sharpe Field (AL73) but back before and during World War II, it was known as Tuskegee Army Air Field. There are actually three other fields associated with this one: Moton, which was primarily concerned with PT-19's, Shorter, a remote landing field, and Griel, another remote field. These fields were used in concert with the Tuskegee Institute and the U.S. Army to train the Tuskegee Airmen.
 
The reason it looks similar to so many other places is that the buildings were built to a set of standard Quartermaster Corps plans. There are two series of plans that built most of the camps during WWII, and they were called the 700 and 800 series Cantonment plans. There was basically a standard set of plans for every type of building. Custom buildings would still start with the standard plan then deviate.
 
I like the checkered hangar roofs. Your work does look just like the old picture.


falcon409 said:
Sure looks like it but there aren't any Palm trees, lol.
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I've been to Howard AFB, and oddly, it's full of and surrounded by regular leafy type trees...not many Palm trees at all.
 
Wow Jim, it looks really good! I look forward to its release! Thank you Jim!

Does anyone know if the trees change color in Panama?
 
I did the static BT-13's, but I'd sure like to see a native one that we could fly. This field handled principally BT-13's (Vultee [LINESTRIKE]Valiant[/LINESTRIKE] Vibrator)and B-24's so it was intermediate training. Moton was primary with a crop of PT-19's for airmanship training... at least as far as I have been able to determine.
 
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