Tingkawk Sakan Airfield

Tingkawk Sakan Airfield is a former wartime

Burma Campaign 1944-1945

. It is now abandoned.

History

The airfield was a temporary field with a 4,000-foot runway consisting of gravel carved out of a 200-foot-high teak forest with temperatures running well above 100 °F (38 °C). The airfield was used by the

North American P-51C Mustangs

.

In August 1944, the

8th Reconnaissance Group, based at Barrackpore, India, sent a detachment of the 20th Reconnaissance Squadron to fly reconnaissance missions from the field with F-5s (Lockheed P-38 Lightning

). The detachment moved out in November.

The 311th was replaced in August by the

Myitkyina Airfield

and the facility was closed.

Today, the airfield is abandoned, and has been reclaimed by the forest from which it was carved out of. A disturbed vegetation region in satellite imagery shows its approximate location.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
ISBN 0-89201-092-4

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