Post Numéro: 12 de Prosper Vandenbroucke 23 Oct 2020, 14:51
Bonjour,
Et Didier a peut-être bien raison,
Je n'avais pas songé à regarder dans mes favoris, mais la même source donne ceci:
Helmstedt-Mariental (GER) (52 17 015 N – 10 59 55 E)
General: airfield (Einsatzhafen) in Lower Saxony 32.5 km E of
Braunschweig; airfield 5 km N of Helmstedt and immediately NE of
Marienthal village.
History: built between 1937 and 1940 with hangars, administrative
and supply buildings and a barrack block. Used mainly as a practive
field for training units during the war years, although fighters began
using it in 1944. Also used for paratroop training and as a repair
center for fighter aircraft.
Dimensions: approx. 1190 x 685 meters (1300 x 750 yards) with a
rectangular layout.
Surface and Runway: grass improved with leveling and draining. No
paved runway noted in April 1944. A taxiway ran along the N
boundary. Believed to have had a beam approach system for night
landings.
Fuel and Ammunition: had refueling points along the N boundary in
front of the hangars. Location of fuel and ammunition storage not
identified.
Infrastructure: there were 2 large hangars and 1 medium repair
hangar set back 185 meters from the N boundary and all of them had
paved aprons. Workshops were located behind the hangars and a
motor pool with garages was sited 400 meters N of the hangars.
Airfield buildings, stores, barracks, messhalls, flight operations, etc.,
all grouped in a wooded area immediately behind the hangars at the N
end of the field. A branch rail line served the N boundary.
Dispersal: no organized dispersal areas noted in Apr 44.
Defenses: No information.
Satellites and Decoys: none noted.
Remarks:
20 Feb 44: town bombed by 58 B-24 Liberators, but the airfield was
not specifically targeted.
Mid-Apr 44: leveling work to build an extension off the E boundary was
in progress.
21 May 44: low-level attack by VIII Fighter Command P-38s – claimed
2 x Bf 109s, 1 x Hs 129 and 2 x unidentified aircraft destroyed, plus 3
x Fw 190s and 2 x unidentified aircraft damaged.
5 Aug 44: airfield bombed by 14 B-17 Fortresses.
12 Apr 45: taken by U.S. forces.
Operational Units: KGr.z.b.V. 700 (Feb-Mar 43).
School Units: Arbeitsplatz for FFS A/B 119 (Jüterbog-Damm) (1940-
41); FFS A 42 (Oct 43 – Jan 45); II./JG 105 (Jan – Mar 45).
Station Commands: Fl.Pl.Kdo. A 50/XI (c.Feb 43 – Mar 44);
Flugplatzkdo. Helmstedt of Fl.H.Kdtr. A(o) 25/XI Gardelegen (1944-
45).
Lw. Garrison and Station Units (on the airfield, in the city or nearby –
not complete): 3/Werftzug 759 (Feb 44); 20/Werftzug 170 (Feb 44);
11/Werftzug z.b.V. (Feb 44); Werft-Abt. (o) 30/XI (spring 44 – 1945);
le.Hei.Flak-Bttr. 13/XI (1944); 4.(Tel.Bau)/Ln.-Rgt. 204 (May 43 –
c.Feb 44); 4.(Tel.Bau)/Ln.-Rgt. 211 (Sep 44 – 1945);
I./Fallschirmjäger-Ers.-u.Ausb.Rgt. 3 (Jan-Mar 45).
[Sources: AFHRA A5257A pp.269-71 (5 Jul 44); chronologies; BA-MA;
NARA; PRO/NA]