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I actually received one of the files from DoD already, so I have requested more.

Thank you, this agency seems to not exist anymore and I am having a difficult time finding more information about it. Mostly I am referred to archives.gov which has nothing. What I did come across are some records in the Air Force History Index, this one on Pici...

Thank for replying again. I think the field didn't change much and the 4L chart is just a little wrong then, Pici was not used for very long. The best history description of this field I found in archive: Pici e Cocorote: as Bases Americanas no Ceará at Blog do Igor About the radio site, which...

Thank you so much for looking all this up Wurger! I have 2 possible locations for the LF/MF Four-Course Radio Range Beacon, which one do you think is correct? I have looked today at the site that I called Localizer, indicated on the 1944 Approach Chart but there was nothing there and the people...

Ok, so the tower was nothing from WWII it was a water tower built in 1980s. Other photos are from some foundations seen on the airfield, if I overlay the 1945 map then that had buildings there.

Thank you, I hope someone can shed some more light on what kind of equipment would have been used. There is a location Radio Panair on this map, which matches the location on the large approach map. I also found a strange shack on the location pointed to in the smaller map, it's made of...

I'm researching an airfield, or what's left of it, near to where I currently stay in Fortaleza Brazil. This was called Pici Field and was constructed during WWII and abandoned after a few years of use when they constructed a new field called Cocorote (or Adjacento). I found various maps, from...