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- U.S NAVY BASES

28)PARNAMIRIM IN PICTURES




Below, a series of pictures showing the dimension of that large airfield and intense traffic that made Natal one of the most important airbases of the war. Nearly twenty thousand airplanes passed through the base bound for Africa  European theater and Far Eastern fronts.












 







One american instructor demonstrates the use of one navigational component to brazilian pilots at Natal. In the US-Brazilian Training Unity (USBATU), brazilian airmen are instructed in operations and maintenance of american built planes.

Photo by Charles Ives.


 

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