Feldluftpark Pori – The Project Advances
As some of my readers might remember, last year I launched a new conflict archaeology project for the research of the WWII Luftwaffe airport and aviation equipment depot in Pori. The project, now called Feldluftpark Pori, has advanced nicely over the winter months and in the following post, I want to share a few of these advances with you. Festive mood both for the troops of Feldluftpark Pori and archaeologists researching their heritage. At the initial phase, I spent a great deal of time with maps archived to the Finnish Air Force Museum in Jyväskylä. Using a GIS program, I created a projection of around 300 constructions built by Germans and Finns during the war, including aircraft shelters, hangars, barracks and even an aircraft gun harmonization range. This projection did not only give an idea of the Luftwaffe depot as whole, but it could also be used for example to observe annual changes to the depot or to showcase only certain types of buildings, such as barr...