Eschwege Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany in the northwest part of Eschwege (Hessen); approximately 170 miles southwest of Berlin...
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reconnaissance of bridges, artillery, road and rail junctions, traffic centers, airfields, and other targets. Moved into liberated area of France in early July...
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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...
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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...
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(Y-99), Germany, 16 April 1945 Braunschweig Airfield (probably R-37),. Germany, 25 April 1945 Eschwege Airfield (R-11), Germany, 17 May 1945 Camp Detroit...
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(Y-99), Germany, 16 April 1945 Wiesbaden-Erbenheim Airfield (Y-80), Germany, 31 May 1945 Eschwege Airfield (R-11), Germany, 31 July–26 September 1945 Boston...
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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...
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Advanced landing ground (category World War II airfields)
(secondary coordinates) Advanced landing grounds (ALGs) were temporary advance airfields constructed by the Allies during World War II during the liberation of...
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Gerhard B. Heller (category People from Eschwege)
becoming employed at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Heller was born in Eschwege in 1914. He attended university at the Technische Universität Darmstadt...
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regional repair yard of the National Socialist Flyers Corps Group 6, at Eschwege, with approximately 100 planes. After the war, von Bissing described her...
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