Talk:Rosales Airport

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This airfield is not even paved -- how can jets have been operating here? Is there a factual source? -Rolypolyman (talk) 17:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article is wrong. Rosales was never capable of landing jets. It was a World War II auxiliary field of what was then Clark Field. Before World War II started, propeller-driven fighter planes (P-35s, P-40s) of the US Armny Air Corps (there was no "US Air Force" until after the war) occasionally used this as an emergency landing field or as a dispersal field. During the first day of the war, December 8, 1941 (December 7 in Pearl Harbor across the dateline), some P-40s that survived the carnage when the Japanese bombed Clark Field took refuge here, to refuel and to literally hide the airplanes from Japanese fighters and bombers.

Other auxiliary airfields were at Del Carmen (now Basa) in Pampanga, Plaridel in Bulacan, Tanauan in Batangas, and San Marcelino, Zambales. There was a big fighter airfield at Iba, Zambales. Of those, San Marecelino is now a private airstrip, generally run down and unused, Tanauan is an active private airstrip, and the rest are active airports or air bases.

Tonet 07 June, 2010

Tonetriv (talk) 00:39, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]