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Maybe we should ask Dan MacDonald...... he took the photo !
Charles
Well folks...... my trust in you has been rewarded.... The runway in question is indeed Amata Kabua International Airport located on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands.... I remember over flying this airfield while searching for tropical storm develoment..... At first I thought it was Kawjalien which turned out to be in error but it is in the same island group. Many thanks to Ho Hun for steering me straight.........
Now a couple of other remarks...... I stand before you hat in hand and appologize for refering to Kiribati as Christmas Island. September 1966 is a long time ago and was my last visit to Kiritmati in the Line Islands along with Palmyra and Kingman Reefs......So Kiritmati is the one refered to as Christmas Island and not Kiribati....... age doth weigh heavily on ones brain cells.
Finally to syscom3..... Can't say any more about the nuclear programs. What you read in news papers and magazines and periodicals is all heresay until some knowledgable official confirms certain statements or developements... at that point it becomes official and is no longer heresay..... All I can say is it was very interesting and educational and made a believer out of folks like me (who once upon a time was a SAC B-47 Select Aircraft Commander)....that we don't ever want to go to war with nuclear weapons..... no winners there everybody loses..........
You folks might google Operation Corona for a little window into some of my other adventures in the Pacific.... I got into all kinds of stuff in my 30 years of airplane driving for Uncle Sam.......
11 PM here in Orlando and rapidly nearing my bed time so.... my friends I bid you adieu and thanks again for helping to clear up some of the fog in this old head........... good site........ keep it up!