Hidden Locales of BoP

[RuffMonk]

@ McQ59

We'll I've been calling it the southern airfield because initially I thought it was more to the south until last night, lol! It's more to the west than it is south, so I changed the references in my previous posts, lol! Did you find the other 2?

@Cryptic Phant0m
I'll have to do some recon in Etna the next time I'm on. Thanks!

[McQ59]

Nope Ruff, couldn't find the other two either. I was intercepted by the CL-match. A very sad story... (Except some Latinamerican magic realism a few sec. Messi...
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The airfield at Gerbini is a small nice one. We used it in a historic mission a cpl of weeks ago. The Sicily map is quite cool as it's got a glitch too. I don't remeber the heading, but it is a small bay down there somewhere were you can fly "under" the shoreline and come up a bit inland. Not sure if it the glitch is like that in trainingmode as we did it online...

[McQ59]

Got'em Ruff. The western between the two small rivers is a good field for bombers about He-111 size. What if the germans held the land west of Stalingrad and needed to knock out the T-34 production over at Red October, and a cpl of LA's was protecting from the northern... I think I got an idea

[RuffMonk]

Cool, glad you found them McQ59! Yeah, it's size leads me to believe that it's suppose to represent Pitomnik airfield which was the largest airfield inside the Stalingrad Cauldron. Most of the transports landed there during the Stalingrad Airlift and I know it was westward from Gumrak. In the Stalingrad book I'm using for research in my upcoming historicals, there is a two page graphic that lays out the encirclement of the 6th Army and both Pitomnik and Gumrak are illustrated in there. When the Germans lost Pitomnik on Jan. 16th, they shifted to Gumrak which in turn was overrun a week later. I'm planning on putting those two battles into my historicals, but I just haven't gotten that far ahead in developing the missions yet. I'm currently working on the mission that will cover the launch of Operation Uranus.

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

Found the five, but the sixth is elusive.

[RuffMonk]

@ Zatoichi_Sanjuro

Western Airfield (Karpovka?):
Head to the left side of the map, keeping to the west side of the Volga. At the left hand edged of the map you will see two small rivers jutting out from the edge of the map, not far from each other. The airfield is located between them, just at the tips of each river.

Your first pic is actually one I didn't know about as you're missing the Gumrak airfield just south of the city itself. If there is indeed an airfield where your first thumb indicates, then that means there are 7 airfields on that map. Good work Zatoichi!!!

[RuffMonk]

The more I play this game the more I love it due to its authenticity, lol! After checking through the Pitomnik wiki, there were indeed 7 airfields located within the Stalingrad Cauldron with Pitomnik near the center. The 7 airfields were:

Pitomnik
Bolshaia Rossoshka
Stalingradski
Gumrak
Basargino
Voroponovo
Karpovka

The Pitomnik is most likely the airfield at Krasny Pukhar while Gumrak is easy to identify. I believe that Stalingradski is likely the airfield at Krasny Oktyabr as that is the airfield used in the Gumrak and Stalingrad city CTA. As for the other 4, I'm not sure, but here is a link to a jpeg of the cauldron with the red circles representing each airfield.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...clement_it.png

[Cryptic Phant0m]

Etna Manor House


East of Vizzini Church:

[grislawskijg52]

Don't know if our maps let us go this far. South of Catania near Raguso the place is called Comiso. Should be a German Airfield bombed at the begining of the campaign. Looks to be near the coast. I will look tonight, but good hunting if you do. Most other significant airfields aside from Gerbini look to be near Mount Erice and Trapani (other side of the island).