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Here are some pics of allied airfields in India and the Arakan. Most views are looking north...
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CHITTAGONG
CHARINGA
(Debating on whether or not to have steel mat plates in parking area and taxiways as described IRL. As far as I know these were not used before 1944)
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GEORGE fighter strip near Nidania on coast
HOVE emergency strip on the beach, south of GEORGE strip (looking south)
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MAUNGDAW NORTH
MAUNGDAW SOUTH
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JAPANESE airfields (during most of the war)
Some of these I have photos or descriptions of but most I do not have any information so I used my imagination.
HLEGU / ZAYATKWIN, near Rangoon
TAUKKYAN (the scenic strip mentioned earlier)
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SHWEBO
ONBAUK
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MEIKTILA
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PAYAGYI
YE
Neat use of the Imphal main tile!
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I learned how to "paint" textures on map_T and have been experimenting with that.
Thank you MrOblongo for changing up the map to show the wood/trees. I learned some things from that. I've been painting trees where before I had none and painting grasslands where before there were dark green forest textures.
There's much more jungle/trees now on the western coast and more grassland on the Shwebo plains and Myintha River valley. I think I'll leave the southern region as-is even though some fields may look repetitive.
Also deleted trees that were in the rivers, especially in the central part of map.
Painted a one-pixel border around the edge of map so "infinity" will look uniform.
Added 3 airfields to Akyab island; did I mention that already?
Populated some towns, Chittagong, Mandalay, and some smaller ones.
Added some more seaplane bases on the west coast.
Map looks totally different now.
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I don't think I'll use your new MapT because I've done too much with the present one now. I've been using those maps from the university of Texas to see where the forests are. By the way, that book you referred me to about the RAF Regiment has given me more information than I thought it would (after reading it). Thanks!
I wonder if anyone else is having problems with saving missions. That problem is most likely caused by not having some type of MODs object. I've only used MODS that were included in the UI 1.1 so if you have that you should have everything I use.
(the three bridges are on the map, south of Ye, lower right corner of map).
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Here are some screenies...
View of Hove beach airfield looking north. George airfield is in the background.
Over Indin, Mayu Peninsula (west coast) where several battles were fought for control of the area...
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View of Chittagong looking east...
View of Chittagong looking south. CTG airfield in upper right corner...