The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

If you want names of any of the guys in the pictures, I have a fairly good list of those involved. The visiting a/c in the pictures are RAAF P51 Mustang of 83 Sqn, USAF B26 Invader and P47 Thunderbolt. I'm not sure who the Corsair in the hangar belonged to, but it looks like it could be Australian navy.

Thanks for sharing those images that give a feel for what the base and its occupants were like.

The Corsair is in an 'all weather hangar' (lets everything in!)

jaffa;107931 wrote:

hi guys found your site when trying to find out as much imformation as i can on 2 japanese airfields that were used by the occupation airforce in 1945

iwakuni and miho

look foreward to getting to know my way round here

jaffa:)

Miho is now a regional airport and JASDF base (IATA YGJ - ICAO RJOH) and its history and details are well documented on Wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miho-Yonago_Airport

Iwakuni was where my Dad arrived in Japan on a Short Sunderland flying boat having been in transit from the UK for 20 days on Avro York from Lyneham to Luqa, Luqa to Baghdad, Baghdad to Mauripur, Mauripur to Negombo, Negombo to Changi. Then Dakota from Changi to Saigon, Saigon to Hong Kong, and finally Sunderland to Iwakuni.

Hi Everyone
I'm new to this site and what I've read so far has really interested me. My strong interest is Llandow and I'd love to know so much more about it I worked there in the sixties for a haulage firm which was based in the old fire station or so I beleive

Welcome to AiX Coachman. We have some members familiar with Llandow. Can you indicate the building from which you worked using (say) Flashearth or similar.

Welcome to AIX

im new at this aged 91 sidney young ex 80 wing diss 7 tx s
i must be one of the few left to tell the secrets of our operations in 1943
which mainly radlet picks up the german radio beam 7 VIA SCOLE OUR RADIO RECIEVERS
afew miles away& sent onto my PETER SCOTT TX & WHEN instructed id finely tune into
the german radio beam & hopefully bamboosal the german nav/bomber with my RE TRANSMISSION
hoping his bomb s drop in open fields
ON ONE O CATION MY PHONE INSTRUCTION WAS TO QUICKLY RE TRANSMIT THE LORD HAW
HAW BEAMS FROM BERLIN [THIS I FELT TERIBLY ABOUT AS IM JEWISH]but orders are to be obeyed
ON D DAY EARLY AM I WAS INTRODUCED TO A POWERFULL NEW TX & transmitted LOTS OF MUSH
HOPING TO BLOCK GERMAN RADIO TRANS TO THEIR FIGHTER AIRCRAFT
I VISITED THE OLD TX FIELD SOME YEARS BACK having been turned into a chicken farm
if there are any servivers ex 1943 DISS ID LIKE TO GET IN TOUCH THRU THIS EXCALENT MEDIA
SIDNEY YOUNG 1451134 LAC RAFVR

A very warm welcome Sidney, please post more off your ww2 experiences, there are many members on here that would love to here them and would want to correspond with you,
regards Ian

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