The Foggia Airfield Complex was a series of World War II military airfields located within a 40 km radius of Foggia, in the Province of Foggia, in southern Italy. The airfields were used by the United
World War II airfields within 40 km (25 miles) of Foggia
Douglas Dakota Mark III transports of No. 267 Squadron RAF lined up at Bari Airfield
P-51C Mustang fighters from the 332nd Fighter Group at Ramitelli Airfield, with goats (March 1945)
Marston Mat, also misspelled as Marsden matting, but more properly called pierced steel planking, is standardized, perforated steel matting material developed by the United States at the Waterways Exp
Foggia Airfield Complex
…airfields were constructed for operations by both Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Force and RAF units. These airfields, by and large, consisted of grass or Pierced Steel Planking (PSP) runways and parking and dispersal areas, with support structures quickly constructed out of wood or tents, along with (if needed) a temporary…
Royal Air Force and South African Air Force aircrew with one of their Bristol Beaufighters on a PSP airstrip at Biferno, Italy, August 1944
Members of the 332nd Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen) of the United States Army Air Forces discuss combat flying while walking on Marston matting.
Marston mat laid by CB 45 on the Navy's auxiliary field on Tanaga Island in the Aleutian Islands
A Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk of the Royal Australian Air Force taxiing along Marston Mat at Milne Bay in the Territory of Papua on the island of New Guinea in September 1942