P-40's c 1943 Amchitka, AK ...
Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:38 pm
Couldn't quite tell who's P-40K that was (third back) until I did a little 'digging' ... found a modelers site that seems to explain it. (Scroll down the page in the link)
http://aleutianplanes.com/
"P-40K, serial number 42-45951, gray 'A', 111 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, Amchitka Island, April 1943, pilot unknown. 'Damaged the starboard wing tip after taxiing into parked P-40E '610', at Umnak on 1 September 1942. The aircraft was repaired."
http://aleutianplanes.com/
"P-40K, serial number 42-45951, gray 'A', 111 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, Amchitka Island, April 1943, pilot unknown. 'Damaged the starboard wing tip after taxiing into parked P-40E '610', at Umnak on 1 September 1942. The aircraft was repaired."
Re: P-40's c 1943 Amchitka, AK ...
Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:45 pm
More very interesting information on RCAF 111 squadron. Really good stuff that explains a bit more on the above P-40K as well as much more about our allies up north. Great warriors and great allies.
"LIFE in 111 Squadron"
http://www.rcaf111fsquadron.com/life-in-111.html
"LIFE in 111 Squadron"
http://www.rcaf111fsquadron.com/life-in-111.html
Re: P-40's c 1943 Amchitka, AK ...
Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:03 pm
Spectacular photo of 111 Sq. P-40's
111 Squadron on their last Parade at Fort Greely, Kodiak Island, Alaska
111 Squadron on their last Parade at Fort Greely, Kodiak Island, Alaska
Re: P-40's c 1943 Amchitka, AK ...
Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:31 pm
A little Amchitka History
American troops landed on Amchitka to establish The Naval Air Facility on 24 February 1943. To make way for them, the U.S. forciblyamchitka evacuated the local Aleuts and interned them thousands of miles away. Near the end of World War II, Amchitka Island was an advance location for planning the invasion of the northern islands of Japan (the Kuriles). The south-eastern portion of the island had buildings to house an infantry division of about 13,000. At this time Amchitka had three runways. "Fox" was shortest and closest to what is now Constantine Harbor. "Charlie" and "Baker" were longer, and with "Charlie" at 10,000 feet in length, it was at that time the world's longest runway. By 1949-1950, the Air Force presence on Amchitka had dropped to about 40.
During the postwar period, Amchitka Island was a military outpost to provide a radio range station and alternate landing site for aircraft flying the Aleutian Islands. It was also a weather monitoring site for Russian weather reports where six full time radio operators monitored Russian weather broadcasts.
Between 1950 and 1961 Amchitka Island was used in the Distant Early Warning network. Between 1965 and 1971 Amchitka was the site for underground nuclear testing. Between 1986 and 1993 it was used for construction and operation of the Relocatable Over the Horizon Radar.
Amchitka today is uninhabited, but residents of villages on other islands sometimes hunt for marine mammals or fish near it. Seals, fish and other marine life migrate among the islands. Presently, Amchitka Island is a National Refuge.
American troops landed on Amchitka to establish The Naval Air Facility on 24 February 1943. To make way for them, the U.S. forciblyamchitka evacuated the local Aleuts and interned them thousands of miles away. Near the end of World War II, Amchitka Island was an advance location for planning the invasion of the northern islands of Japan (the Kuriles). The south-eastern portion of the island had buildings to house an infantry division of about 13,000. At this time Amchitka had three runways. "Fox" was shortest and closest to what is now Constantine Harbor. "Charlie" and "Baker" were longer, and with "Charlie" at 10,000 feet in length, it was at that time the world's longest runway. By 1949-1950, the Air Force presence on Amchitka had dropped to about 40.
During the postwar period, Amchitka Island was a military outpost to provide a radio range station and alternate landing site for aircraft flying the Aleutian Islands. It was also a weather monitoring site for Russian weather reports where six full time radio operators monitored Russian weather broadcasts.
Between 1950 and 1961 Amchitka Island was used in the Distant Early Warning network. Between 1965 and 1971 Amchitka was the site for underground nuclear testing. Between 1986 and 1993 it was used for construction and operation of the Relocatable Over the Horizon Radar.
Amchitka today is uninhabited, but residents of villages on other islands sometimes hunt for marine mammals or fish near it. Seals, fish and other marine life migrate among the islands. Presently, Amchitka Island is a National Refuge.
Re: P-40's c 1943 Amchitka, AK ...
Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:44 pm
"Amchitka was easily one of the most remote and inhospitable U.S. military outposts of World War II. It was so remote that during the Cold War, the U.S. detonated three nuclear warheads on the island in various underground tests. Located about 80 miles from Kiska Island in the Aleutian chain, American forces landed there unopposed in January 1943 and quickly built an airfield there to support the final stages of the campaign in the far north. Once the Japanese had been driven from Attu and Kiska, Amchitka-based Navy patrol bombers and 11th AF aircraft began periodic attacks on the Japanese Kurile Islands." The American Warrior"
Thanksgiving on Amchitka, November 25, 1943.
It was a dreary place to be stationed. The weather was awful, accidents frequent, mud or frozen snowdrifts the polarities of daily living. Yet, the men exiled to Amchitka did their best to make the place home. This included their own version of an American tradition–the Thanksgiving Day football game.
http://theamericanwarrior.com/2014/11/2 ... -amchitka/
Thanksgiving on Amchitka, November 25, 1943.
It was a dreary place to be stationed. The weather was awful, accidents frequent, mud or frozen snowdrifts the polarities of daily living. Yet, the men exiled to Amchitka did their best to make the place home. This included their own version of an American tradition–the Thanksgiving Day football game.
http://theamericanwarrior.com/2014/11/2 ... -amchitka/
Re: P-40's c 1943 Amchitka, AK ...
Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:09 am
Mark Allen M wrote:Couldn't quite tell who's P-40K that was (third back) until I did a little 'digging' ... found a modelers site that seems to explain it. (Scroll down the page in the link)
http://aleutianplanes.com/
"P-40K, serial number 42-45951, gray 'A', 111 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, Amchitka Island, April 1943, pilot unknown. 'Damaged the starboard wing tip after taxiing into parked P-40E '610', at Umnak on 1 September 1942. The aircraft was repaired."
Wow,I never knew they had short tailed "K"s.Always learning.thanks for that.