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Hi Wouter,
the reason for all that transport was the exercise REFORGER (REturn of FORces to GERmany). This was during the cold war an annual exercise to train the NATO forces to deploy to Germany in case of a conflict with the Russians.
In the centre of the last photo you can see a C-130 prop. I remember that one of Hercs got damaged by ice, and that the blades were bent. I was there that day as well (oh man, it was cold) and have a photo of this C-130 with the damaged prop still on. I will look it up next weekend.
Some positives scanned of 1980 /Valkenburg, landing/departure was at the short runway at that time.
My 1st and last operational (sorry,not interested in wrecks and ex) Danish Dak, and a Neptune for the bonus.
Pieter
Last edited by AK01 on 16 Jan 2009, 21:16, edited 1 time in total.