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  1. Simply a great post!! Amazing research! The mapping is a work of patient application and is of real importance! Well done. I am astonished those Sun Pens have survived the years and these are the first I have seen modern photos of. Did you hear of any other global survivors in your research?

  2. Mr. Mukherjee
    Thank you very much for this incredible work of painstaking details.
    So much information you have collected.

    1. awesome. habra asoknagar was my mamr bari (maternal uncle’s home but never knew such surprise relics are hidden there.
      one more thought. the concrete structure have weathered 70 years and still intact. may our civil designers have acloser look and stop collapse of our bridges.
      thanks for the enjoyable read.

  3. very good content and amazing research to find out the actual flying site but very sad to see that these places are totally cover by house and not taken care by anybody…………

  4. Excellent article! Very well researched and serves as an example for us to realise how we have ignored history and taken it for granted. As a child, l stayed near Majerhat. There was a lane there named Jala Lane. Legend has it that a Japanese bomb fell there in WW2 and the entire lane was engulfed in flames. Thus ‘Jala’ lane. Thank you very much for your painstaking efforts and research.

  5. Excellent article! I admire your passion andthank you for taking the pains to do such meticulous research. I have been to Kalyani many times and it is a pity that l wasn’t aware of this priceless piece of history hilding in plain view!

  6. Would you consider posting your work in FLICKR or WIKIPEDIA/WIKIMEDIA so that more people can share this incredible mine of well-researched history of our country?

  7. Sir, your research about Baigachi Airfield is no doubt very impressive and I’m very happy to read this. But Sir, I think the comparison map (than vs now) needs a slight change/edit, I will help you in need. I am posted as an Electrical Engineer of WBSEDCL in Ashokenagar since 2016 and thus why I know the place well.

  8. Thanks a lot for sharing this piece of history with us. I stay at Habra and this place is close to my home. You can still see the airstrip. You are welcome anytime if you want to visit here. Also, there are a number of barracks still in a good condition. These barracks are small semi-circular tin structures. Most of them are either occupied or abandoned. But they are in a perfect condition.

  9. My father served there in 1943/44. I have Christmas menus for these years. I have passed these to Newark and Notts aircraft museum in the UK. They are generating a display there. Very glad you have explored and researched this airfield

  10. Hi, Just looking through the photos of aircraft. Most of those shown as Beaufighters are Mark 4 Blenheims (Type 149-Bolingbrokes) with and without the under chin rear facing Fraser Nash Turret. The ones with the slimmer streamlined noses are Mk 5 Blenheims (Type 160-Bisleys)

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