[Milsurplus] Couple of WWII Air Bases

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I have found a manila folder in the collection that has documentation for Mitchell Field in NY and "Headquarters GRENIER FIELD, Station 16, NAD, ATC, Manchester, N.H. also known as 1377th AAF BASE Unit (NAD-ATC).  One is a letter to "The Airplane Commander" laying down the rules for his and the crew's responsibilities.

The other letter is to: All Transient Pilots"  concerning briefing prior to departures.  I suspect that was meant to be prior to their departure overseas.  Pretty neat info.

This stuff belongs in a display case so people can see it.  Not a lot here but i doubt anyone on the list would be interested in it so it should go to a particular place.  

For Mitchell Field:

Pilots Flight Test Check list.  This one is clean and unused, hand typed of course.
A set of orders for Four officers and 4 different airplanes being alerted for duty effective 1 Feb. 45.  Instructions for obtaining Medical clearance, records check, parachute checks and loading of the aircraft.  More on this on the back page.  These were issued by the 110th AAF Base Unit (Staging), Mitchell Field.

There is a check list for B-24 Engineers. A Combat Crew Field Clearance Sheet for crew AF-6 as to where they will go (what building) for the different base clearing functions.  Jan 31, 1945.

An overhead drawing of the airfield and an Airway Forcast sheet for weather.  Doesn't say anything really about their route which is from Mitchell Field to Bangor ME. via hartford and Boston.  Attached is a copy of the weather TTY machine printout.  NEAT!  A nice look back into history.

Then there are several Aircraft items.  Heated covers for the bombsite, Bombsite stabilizer and Autopilot Servo's.  

Army Air Forces Official Amplified Check List for B-24-D, G, E, H and J.  Dec 1943

Letter of Instruction for the B-24 type P2 Aux power unit.

A letter or information for the Pilots Information File concerning the B-24 heating system.

Tech Order 01-5-115, 16 June 1944 addresses the "Emergency Landing Procedures" for the B-24, RB-24, C-87, AT-22, F-7, RY-1 and PB4Y-1 series acft.

Revision of AAF Official Landing Check list for B-24 series airplanes.  One page of typed data from 30 Oct. 1944.

One other thing in the folder was an "Engine Storage record" showing that 4 engines from B-24M S/N 44-50337 were placed in storage in Minneapolis, Mn on 12-21-1944.  this also shows that the Mechanic and Forman performed engine runup and turning of the props on different dates while there.

Is there any sort of historical display or society around Mitchell Field, is it still even an active airport?  Same question with the grenier Field out of Manchester, NH.  I'll be glad to send this information to any responsible individual related to such activities.

Otherwise it will go in the trash and that's a bad demise for it.

Larry
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