[redko]

Hello Redko.... My favorite spot to create a mission is either the Okinawa mainland, a aircraft
carrier off the coast of Okinawa or Ie Shima, a small island off Nago. So I was quite excited
when I read that someone had made a new map of Okinawa. Please dont take this as negative
criticism because it certainly isnt meant to be. I was stationed on Okinawa twice and IeShima
once while serving in the U.S.A.F. and it is one of my most favorite spots on earth. I have always
wondered why Kadena isnt mentioned as a city on Okinawa. It is the biggest city on the island.
While I was stationed on IeShima I used to love to climb the mountain they had there. It was
bigger and flatter on top than in the map. I used to watch the F105's from Kadena practice firing
their machine guns at the targets we set up on the north beach. You could see the tracers before
you heard the purr of the guns. When we went to the mainland we took a ferry to Nago a small
town back then but from what i just read it has grown considerably...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nago,_Okinawa
From there we took a bus to Kadena. I wish the map showed the ferry docking ports at both IeShima
and Nago. Also, the island of IeShima has a lot of trees on it as well as a smaller town at the far
western end of it. We wern't allowed to go there since it was a communist run town.

Anyway, thank you oh so much for your great efforts on this map. It brings back some wonderful memories.

Jaymom

Job started Sir. You will have the city and the docks. There is less trees today in IeShima :wink: . I will try to find some docs showing what was the island at that time, same things for the docs, we know what they are today through Google earth but it should have been different during WW2.

If we are lucky Sir we will have a better Okinawa this week