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Old 10-26-2011, 01:33 PM
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Very nice evocative screenshots Rodolphe!

However I do not believe there were any such single aircraft hangar in Mannheim-Sandhofen ; see the photo below:

http://www.fliegerhorst-sandhofen-co...r/map_1939.jpg

Sandhofen was one of these typical peacetime-built German air bases with large aprons and hangars. Mölders aircraft were usually in the open, or inside the large hangars.

The single-fighter hangars (in their oh so many variations!) were almost exclusive to German bases installed on French soil as of August 1940 or so.

The second screenshot is located in front of a pair of "demi-tonneaux" French hangars, which are also typical of certain peace-time French airbases.
Their CoD rendition is very nice and on the spot (I should know, I provided the data). There were however quite sparse in CloD area: Rouen-Boos (one pair), Amiens-Glisy (one pair), Caen Carpiquet (two sets of four pairs),and close by but not in the CloD area, Lille-Vendeville (one pair)...
So if you could do the same with a Bf-110 of I., III. or Stab/ZG26, you would be spot-on...but poetic license being what it is, I would not hold it against you

Amically,

JVM
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