Forgotten Airfields

[John Marco]

Hi Guys,

In my travels on the net looking for info for doing my 3D model work I ran across these two sites.
They are very interesting some of the ones in Europe show some nice shots of WW1 airfields and
Some photos of WW1 aircraft that I have never seen before and I have seen much in the way of
WW1 photos, most of the photos are from peoples collections, I just thought you guys might like
To see this.

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields USA;
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/

European airfields;
http://www.forgottenairfields.com/   

Enjoy 
Deutschmark

[Des]

Thanks very much for posting the links to the wonderful site, it sure is a very well though out and put together site with some fascinating photos, it will take me quite a while to go through them all, well done.

Des.

[uncletony]

Both sites are utterly fascinating, thanks for sharing... Bookmarked for deeper dives.

[lcarroll]

    I got lost wandering around the Link as well; fascinating, and bookmarked for future enjoyment.
Cheers,
Lance

[Umlaufmotor]

WOW I do not believe it!
Thank you for this link, Deutschmark!

Under the Link "European airfields" I have found the former Messerschmitt factory airfield in Augsburg.
 
Here   
http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=3251.0   
I've written a few sentences where I grew up and spent part of my youth.
Thanks to the link from Deutschmark, I can show it to you now:

First, an aerial view of the airfield during the war after a bombing.



Allow me now to write several sentences about it:
The orange circle shows the administration building of the Messerschmitt company at the northern end of the airfield.
The yellow circle shows a portion of the Messerschmitt factory Werk III or IV.
The orange arrow points to the house in which I spent my youth years later.
The blue circle shows the area in which - as in the link above described - I played many years later in the bombed-out buildings.



Now, the same areal in the 1960' .... was a Glider airfield at this time.


The colored circles means the same as above in the war-picture, now years later.


Here (orange circle) is the administration building of the Messerschmitt company at the northern end of the airfield. The new chiefs are on the airfield, now.
This building is still standing today. I think today it belongs to "Sixt" car rental.


And this is the picture from ca. 2006.
The circles are showing and means the same places as before.
There is not much left from my former playground........



........................and today (2014) is nothing more to see it. It was all built with houses. 

Thank you Deutschmark for this little trip back to my youth.

Servus
Bertl