[Andreas Brekken]

Hi.

I do not have access to my wartime maps of Værnes here right now, but the main runway has been running east/west.

Looking at your holiday snap, the aircraft you are sitting in is parked at Terminal A, thus it is pointing with it's nose to the south. You are looking out over the port wing, thus nearly directly to the east.

So - you are not looking at the Skatval ridge, which is top the north-west of the tower at Værnes, you are looking at the ridge to the north-east of the airstrip, called Brannen.

If all our assumptions are correct, then I would place the aircraft close to the eastern end of the runway, and to the north of it. The person taking the photograph is taking it in the general direction of Brannen, capturing the falling ridge in the Vassbygda area on the left and the lower ridges in the Vollskogen area in the right parts of the photograph. The aircraft parked in the distance parked against the treeline close to where there were some military buildings including from my recollection a rather large hangar when I lived in the area as a child.

Regards,
Andreas