1937-1945 (Luftwaffe) 1945-1946 (United States Army Air Forces)
Eschwege Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany in the northwest part of Eschwege (Hessen); approximately 170 miles southwest of Berlin.
Fliegerhorst Eschwege was used during World War II by the German Luftwaffe as a transport and support airfield. It was seized in early April 1945 by the United States Army and used as a Ninth Air Force combat airfield until the end of the war in Europe. It was closed in January 1946 and was used as a displaced persons camp until 1949.
The airfield/camp was subsequently dismantled and the facility redeveloped into an industrial area.
EschwegeAirfield is a former military airfield located in Germany in the northwest part of Eschwege (Hessen); approximately 170 miles southwest of Berlin...
reconnaissance of bridges, artillery, road and rail junctions, traffic centers, airfields, and other targets. Moved into liberated area of France in early July...
arriving on 21 February. Initially the squadron was assigned to the main airfield, working in the aircraft assembly and test departments. On 7 June, help...
Leutnant Rudolf von Eschwege was a German World War I flying ace who was a fighter pilot operating on the Macedonian front. He was credited with twenty...
(secondary coordinates) Advanced landing grounds (ALGs) were temporary advance airfields constructed by the Allies during World War II during the liberation of...
2017. Johnson, 1st Lt. David C. (1988). U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V-E Day (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Research Division, USAF...
regional repair yard of the National Socialist Flyers Corps Group 6, at Eschwege, with approximately 100 planes. After the war, von Bissing described her...
1946 Landsberg Germany 31147 43136 Eduard Weiter Born: 18 July 1889 in Eschwege near Kassel in Germany. Served in World War I. Commandant of Dachau 1943–1945...
Bernegg) Coquelles I. Gruppe Messerschmitt Bf 109 Coquelles Hptm. S. von Eschwege II. Gruppe Messerschmitt Bf 109 Peuplingne Hptm. Von Kornatzki Jagdgeschwader...
2017. Johnson, 1st Lt. David C. (1988). U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V-E Day (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Research Division, USAF...
18 July, the USAAF Fifteenth Air Force attacked the Luftwaffe Memmingen Airfield. The Sturmgruppe intercepted the bombers and following the mission, the...
Gebirge and west of the Ringgau (ranges), and also 16 km southwest of Eschwege. Flowing through town are the river Sontra, which near Wehretal empties...
part of the first regular detachments of Americans to be stationed at the airfield. It was quartered in French barracks at the Camp de Bluets, on the outskirts...
March, JG 433 received some new Bf 109Es and was transferred to a grass airfield at Böblingen, near Stuttgart. The Luftwaffe reorganized on 1 May 1939,...
down by US fighters near Kassel and crash landed his damaged aircraft at Eschwege when he was killed by strafing US fighters. On 20 July 1944, Wessling was...
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