Project " Battle of France and Low Countries " : Add-on for BOB

[JVM]

Hello Ashehouse!

Many locations for these "plateformes d'opérations" as they were called then can be found in the "DGAC CD-ROM" which is a historical research attempt at listing airfields created between 1908 and 1948; For each of the bases cited there is usually an extract of the local 1/25000 map with colouring made by the author showing the extent of the original french "plateforme" with the german extensions as needed and sometimes the US ones as well.
This CD-ROM does not list all the fields (there were many) but most of the important ones operationally speaking are there. Also many of the BEF created platforms are not mentioned, nor are the German created platforms. Other info can be found at the STAC in Bonneuil sur Marne (bring your scanner with you...).
Some BEF info can also be found in the recently published "Battle of France" book.

I must say that I wait with impatience the way that BoB-SoW will depict all those German and French places...The accuracy here will be a very important factor for immersion but I am not confident when I see the amount of energy (and of visits on-site) needed to get a grasp about the real layout of these airfields...
I just hope Oleg has an access to amazing information sources and local honourable correspondents neither I nor local historians have never heard of in all these years of passion with these old places in Northern France!
And important it is: you just have to consider the incredible quantity of work and dedication people like Ian Boys and several others have put to create airfields looking like WWII airfields (Banff, Imphal, Herdla...), not like 1960 Cold War Soviet air bases (Il2...)

If needed, I can help a little and I have already proposed to OM...still waiting!

JV