Canrobert Airfield: Difference between revisions
edited location and expanded |
→References: clean up - replace redirected user space template with main space template using AWB |
||
| Line 46: | Line 46: | ||
==References== |
==References== |
||
{{AFHRA}} |
|||
{{User:NDCompuGeek/templates/Template:AFHRA}} |
|||
* Maurer, Maurer. ''Air Force Combat Units of World War II''. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4. |
* Maurer, Maurer. ''Air Force Combat Units of World War II''. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4. |
||
* Mauer, Mauer (1969), Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II, Air Force Historical Studies Office, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. ISBN 0892010975 |
* Mauer, Mauer (1969), Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II, Air Force Historical Studies Office, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. ISBN 0892010975 |
||
Revision as of 00:31, 21 September 2009
Canrobert Airfield.png) | |
|---|---|
| Part of Twelfth Air Force | |
| Coordinates | 35°50′34.05″N 007°07′12.39″E / 35.8427917°N 7.1201083°E |
| Type | Military Airfield |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | United States Army Air Forces |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1943 |
| In use | 1943 |
Canrobert Airfield was a World War II military airfield in Algeria, located approximately 4km south of Oum el Bouaghi, approximatley 70km southeast of Constantine. It was used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force during the North African Campaign against the German Afrika Korps. The Allied commanders made desperate efforts to prepare forward airfields for the use of fighters and fighter-bombers. Canrobert was one of these intermediate fields. [1]
Known Tewlfth Air Force units assigned were:
- 47th Bombardment Group, 6-30 Mar 1943, A-20 Havoc
- 81st Bombardment Squadron, (12th Bombardment Group), 16 Mar-3 May 1943, B-25 Mitchell
- 82d Bombardment Squadron, (12th Bombardment Group), 16 Mar-1 May 1943, B-25 Mitchell
- 308th Fighter Squadron, (31st Fighter Squadron), 21-25 Feb 1943, Spitfire
When the Americans moved out in May 1943, the airfield was dismantled and abandoned. Today agriculture has reclaimed the land where the airfield existed, however a faint outline of its main runway can be seen in aerial photography.
Notes
- ^ Coggins, Jack. The campaign for North Africa. Doubleday, 1980. ISBN 0-385-04351-1.
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
- Mauer, Mauer (1969), Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II, Air Force Historical Studies Office, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. ISBN 0892010975
- USAFHRA search for Canrobert Airfield
- Coggins, Jack. The campaign for North Africa. Doubleday, 1980. ISBN 0-385-04351-1.
