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 | High altitude view of the airfield (center-left), old Messerschmitt factory (center) and the village of Haunstetten (right).
The former factory airfield now houses parts of the university and a housing estate. The streets there are named after well-known persons who have gone down in the history of aircraft construction at Augsburg, thus representing a reminder as to the earlier... |  | 02/12/2007 | 405 | 



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 | Montdidier Airfield on July 17, 1944. This was for bomb damage assessment. The airfield looks abandoned.
FRIDAY, 14 JULY 1944
Mission 473: During the evening 131 B-24s are dispatched to hit airfields in France; 54 hit Montdidier Airfield and 39 hit Peronne Airfield; 9 B-24s are damaged. 40 other B-24s fail to bomb because of failure of blind-bombing equipment. Escort is ... |  | 12/24/2008 | 382 | 
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 | It was on this airfield of the Messerschmitt Factory Augsburg-Haunstetten on May 10th. 1941, at about 6:00 P.M. that Rudolf Hess took off in a Messerschmitt Bf 110, Messerschmitt to his famous flight to Scotland.
Today the area is a part of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).
Some of the airfield is still visible.
http://en.wik... |  | 09/03/2009 | 160 | 



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 | Portion of a Luftwaffe airfield in a photo taken on August 6, 1944 from a Spitfire MK XI of the 7th PRG.
There are some Heinkel He 177 in the splitter boxes at teh middle left side. Also four Fighter (Bf 109?) in the upper right sector, maybe it's the airfield security swarm. |  | 12/19/2008 | 403 | 
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 | Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) B.8 near Sommervieu, Normandy, France.
The airfield was completed by 22 June 1944 and was 1200m lond and 40m wide.
Some british squadrons (39 Recce Wing (400,168), 74 Squadron, 145 Wing (329,340,341)) were stationed here after the invasion. |  | 06/03/2007 | 505 | 



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 | this plane is ready to land at augsburg airport, approx. 57 meters high. |  | 11/18/2006 | 175 | 



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 | In the Ice Canal of Augsburg you see kayakers training. |  | 12/22/2007 | 147 | 



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 | A few days after the occupation of Denmark, the local Danish authorities were informed by the Germans that an airfield was to be established on an approx. 600 ha. area to the south of Rom church.
Work started that year and by 1941, the grass airstrips, the concrete taxiways, the dispersal bays, the ammunition and fuel depots and the anti-aircraft defences had taken form. The 43 c... |  | 09/12/2009 | 84 | 



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 | Photo was taken July 19, 1944 by a Spitfire MK XI of the 7th PRG. |  | 11/10/2009 | 58 | 
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 | Luftwaffe airfield Halberstadt Germany. Lots of aircraft on the ground July 7, 1944 including a Heinkel 111Z or "Zwilling" glider tug. There were a total of 12 built.
Photo was taken by John S. Blyth flying a Sptifire MK XI. He was based at Mt Farm, UK with the 14th Squadron of the 7th PRG USAAF.
Source: Flickr |  | 12/19/2008 | 415 | 
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 | Bombing of St. Avord, France airfield at 28.4.44 by the 381st BG. The photo was taken from 14,100 feet by a B-17G. |  | 05/15/2006 | 378 | 



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 | 53 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos of No 5 Group bombed the airfield at Tours and caused much damage. 1 Lancaster and 1 Mosquito lost. |  | 02/11/2007 | 268 | 



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