41. In addition to the airdrome , the facility would also house a Naval submarine base. 42. U . S . Seventh Fleet cruisers and destroyers shell Japanese positions northeast of Manggar airdrome . 43. The 15th Pursuit Group was formed next and was made a permanent part of the airdrome . 44. The Sierra Airdrome closed in 1929. 45. Thus, except for the airdrome itself, the base was spared the ravages of war. 46. Early in 1943 a guard squadron, a quartermaster company, and an airdrome squadron arrived. 47. From Bombay it moved by train and a Ganges River boat to Tezgaon Airdrome near Calcutta. 48. Its history begins before World War II, when it was originally a grass civil airdrome . 49. The full scale Airdrome Bleriot Model XI has a wingspan of and a wing area of. 50. Attached to Company C, battle for an enemy airdrome on an island rarely heard of before.