01.07.2008, 22:52
FF, by all means, finish your Thailand map first. Burma can wait til later. I just wanted to give what I have right now so that you can get an idea of some of the places. I have seen the list of airfields on the Pacific War Airfields site and it is helpful. But I doubt you would want to do ALL of the 250 or so airfields listed 
The ones I listed are apparently more significant since they are mentioned by the authors in the two books. I might have left a few important ones off the list. (Bassein in the lower Delta comes to mind). You're the one making this so it's all up to you on how much you want to add, or allow others to add later.
As far as I know, there weren't any paved runways and they were all dirt or some maybe gravel at best. There is frequent mention during monsoon seasons of airfields being unusable. Even the Japanese would pull their aircraft back to bases in Thailand and elsewhere because of the monsoons.
I can't recall, but I would guess that the main runway at Chittagong would be like Imphal Main.
Kunming was a gravel surface, correct?
And the USAAF fields in Assam (Dinjan & Tezpur) were probably gravel.
So go ahead and finish Thailand :!: I've come to realize that Thailand saw a lot of action too so that map is equally important. Plus, you've added eastern Burma to that map so that adds a lot more to it as well. Good luck buddy 8)
The ones I listed are apparently more significant since they are mentioned by the authors in the two books. I might have left a few important ones off the list. (Bassein in the lower Delta comes to mind). You're the one making this so it's all up to you on how much you want to add, or allow others to add later.As far as I know, there weren't any paved runways and they were all dirt or some maybe gravel at best. There is frequent mention during monsoon seasons of airfields being unusable. Even the Japanese would pull their aircraft back to bases in Thailand and elsewhere because of the monsoons.
I can't recall, but I would guess that the main runway at Chittagong would be like Imphal Main.
Kunming was a gravel surface, correct?
And the USAAF fields in Assam (Dinjan & Tezpur) were probably gravel.
So go ahead and finish Thailand :!: I've come to realize that Thailand saw a lot of action too so that map is equally important. Plus, you've added eastern Burma to that map so that adds a lot more to it as well. Good luck buddy 8)