Scores of abandoned airfields and other military establishments sit atop small atolls littering the North Pacific Ocean. These edifices were built by the

RAF Ibsley had a very short life, it was opened in 1941 and closed in 1947, during that time it was used by both the RAF and the United States Army Air Force. Today you will not find much left of the base apart from the control tower, a couple of shelters & some bits of concrete aircraft dispersal areas. Most of the airfield was destroyed when gravel extraction started in the 1970's. It is now just a mass of landscaped quarry lakes.

Midway Eastern Island, abandoned World War II airbase

Base headquarters

4,000 miles away from the Old Buckenham airfield, a set of lost negatives has been found, depicting the military life during WWII.

Rattlesden Army Air Force Base

windrush tower before retoration

broadwell tower in 1977

blakehill farm tower

Terminal 3 bird's-eye view London Heathrow Airport London England

Ford G8T bomb service trucks trundling torpedoes to US Navy Avengers

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