Deux Jumeaux Airfield

Deux Jumeaux Airfield
Deux Jumeaux Airfield (A-4)
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Basse-Normandie Region, France
Deux Jumeaux Airfield is located in France
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Deux Jumeaux Airfield
Deux Jumeaux Airfield (France)
Type Military airfield
Coordinates 49°20′55″N 000°57′45″W / 49.34861°N 0.9625°W / 49.34861; -0.9625
Built by IX Engineering Command
Construction
materials
Square-Mesh Track (SMT)
In use June-September 1944
Controlled by United States Army Air Forces
Battles/wars Western Front (World War II)
  Normandy Campaign
  Northern France Campaign

Deux Jumeaux Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield, which is located near the commune of Deux Jumeaux in the Basse-Normandie region of northern France.

Located uust outside of Deux Jumeaux, the United States Army Air Force established a temporary airfield shortly after D-Day on 14 June 1944, shortly after the Allied landings in France The airfield was one of the first established in the liberated area of Normandy, being constructed by the IX Engineering Command, 816th Engineer Aviation Battalion.

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Known as Advanced Landing Ground "A-4", the airfield consisted of a single 5000' (1500m) Square-Mesh Track runway aligned 11/29. In addition, with tents were used for billeting and also for support facilities; an access road was built to the existing road infrastructure; a dump for supplies, ammunition, and gasoline drums, along with a drinkable water and minimal electrical grid for communications and station lighting.[1]

The 48th Fighter Group, based P-47 Thunderbolt fighters at Deux Jumeaux from 18 June through 29 August 1944.[2]

The fighter planes flew support missions during the Allied invasion of Normandy, patrolling roads in front of the beachhead; strafing German military vehicles and dropping bombs on gun emplacements, anti-aircraft artillery and concentrations of German troops in Normandy and Brittany when spotted.

After the Americans moved east into Central France with the advancing Allied Armies, the airfield was used for resupply and casualty evacuation. It was closed on 15 September 1944. Today the location of the airfield is indistinguishable from the agricultural fields in the area.[3]

See also

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

  1. ^ IX Engineer Command ETO Airfields, Airfield Layout
  2. ^ Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
  3. ^ Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.


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