Two years later, the United Kingdom obtained permission to reestablish its wartime airfield on Gan in the southernmost Addu Atoll.

Test Pilot utilized authentic United States Army Air Corps ( USAAC ) airfield settings and was able to obtain rights to film using Boeing's new Y1B-17, which was destined to become the progenitor of the wartime B-17 bomber series.

Upon reactivation work was begun to modernize the airfield from its World War II wartime configuration into a permanent Air Force Base with modern facilities.

The airfield was again temporarily shut down from September 1946-March 1947 and underwent a major construction program to upgrade the temporary wartime facilities to that of a permanent base.

The present-day airstrip of the Del Monte company, built for their light aircraft, is about two miles east of the wartime airfield.

MIRA Limited, formerly the Motor Industry Research Association, is based on a disused wartime airfield on the A5, to the north of the town.

One of the outcomes of the wartime airfield construction programme was the building of Nutts Corner Airport, just from Aldergrove.

On a large open airfield with plenty of space, an unobtrusive control tower was hidden away amongst a collection of buildings inherited from the wartime operations at the site.

Lydd's wartime airfield was situated north of the town-only one Nissen hut now remains.

Hibaldstow was a wartime fighter airfield as well, and this is now used as a base for parachuting and parachuting competitions by Target Skysports.

Occupied after the war by American forces, the airport was briefly used as a photo-reconnaissance airfield by P-51D Mustang ( F-6 ) aircraft of the 6th and 71st Reconnaissance Groups beginning in late September 1945, mapping the extent of wartime damage over Honshū.

Greenham Common airfield was one of several wartime airfields in the Salisbury Plain area and was originally intended for use as an RAF Bomber Command Operational Training Unit.

Some of the wartime airfield facilities used to house the Ulster Aviation Society's Heritage Centre.

Podington airfield, near the villages of Hinwick and Podington, was formerly a wartime airbase used by the USAAF during the Second World War.

To the east is Metheringham Fen, across which lies Metheringham Delph, which drains into the River Witham from where it connects to the Car Dyke near an old wartime airfield.

Today, a small private airfield is located on part of the wartime facility.

Starting in 1946, construction work began to turn the wartime RAF airfield into what became known as the Royal Aeronautical Establishment, Bedford.

The village was also close to the wartime airfield of RAF Hampstead Norris, an RAF Bomber Command Operational Training Unit ( OTU ) station.

Thorn Cross ( HM Prison ) is in Appleton Thorn, on the site formerly occupied by Royal Naval Air Station HMS Blackcap, a wartime aircrew training and aircraft repair airfield.

The site of the wartime RAF Errol airfield is situated approximately one mile east of the village.

The wartime airfield consisted of four asphalt hard surfaced runways ; varying in length between 8900 ' and 8600 ' ( N / S ; NE / SW ; E / W ; NW / SE ).

* A World War II era building in the farm field just east of the current base perimeter, along with several wartime buildings on the old technical site ( Site # 5 ) on the west side of the former airfield.

The airfield was used extensively during the Second World War being opened in July 1942 and was immediately occupied by No. 12 Operational Training Unit ( OTU ) as a satellite of RAF Chipping Warden operating Vickers Wellingtons and Avro Ansons training pilots from a magnitude of countries on the allied side but mainly Canadian, Czech and New Zealanders about flying in wartime and small courses about navigation.

The airfield was based upon the standard Class A airfield for wartime operations with pan dispersals utilizing the wind for help with take-offs and landings.

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.

The term " fantasy " became a central issue with the development of the Kleinian group as a distinctive strand within the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and was at the heart of the so-called Controversial discussions of the wartime years.

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

By the end of the war, MIT became the nation's largest wartime R & D contractor ( attracting some criticism of Bush ), employing nearly 4000 in the Radiation Laboratory alone and receiving in excess of $ 100 million ($ billion in 2012 dollars ) before 1946.

The manufacturing dependency continued into World War II when Toledo became involved in wartime production of several products, particularly the Willys Jeep.

His Radiation Laboratory ( known as the Rad Lab ), became one of the major centers for wartime nuclear research, and it was Lawrence who first introduced J. Robert Oppenheimer into what would soon become the Manhattan Project.

He had been assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York State, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers, but in May 1946, through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year, Rickover was finally sent to Oak Ridge as the deputy manager of the entire project, granting him access to all facilities, projects and reports.

Licensing privateers during wartime became widespread in Europe by the 16th Century, when most countries began to enact laws regulating the granting of letters of marque and reprisal.

With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honour.

Denied the nomination, he became a loyal member of Lincoln's wartime cabinet, and played a role in preventing foreign intervention early in the war.

Building on its wartime experience with secret communication systems, high speed counters, and cryptanalytic equipment, NCR became a major post-war force in developing new computing and communications technology.

Chinese under the regime had greater access to coveted wartime luxuries, and the Japanese enjoyed things like matches, rice, tea, coffee, cigars, foods, and alcoholic drinks, all of which were scarce in Japan proper, but consumer goods became more scarce after Japan entered World War II.

It became a casualty of wartime defence work during World War II.

Forde was a loyal deputy, and in 1941 when Labor returned to power he became Minister for the Army, a vital role in wartime.

It was further immortalised in the 1938 song " The Biggest Aspidistra in the World ", which as sung by Gracie Fields became a popular wartime classic.

In the early part of World War II, he became involved with the enormous wartime construction program.

Also, the cost of touring with a large ensemble became cumbersome because of wartime economics.

1700's it became accepted that 100 guns was the standard criterion for a first rate in wartime ( while 90 guns, later 98 guns, became the standard wartime ordnance for a second rate ).

The advantage of a scientifically and technologically sophisticated country became all too apparent during wartime, and in the ideological Cold War to follow the importance of scientific strength in even peacetime applications became too much for the government to any more leave to philanthropy and private industry alone.