Foto, 2.WK. Luftwaffe Brünn/CZE 1944: Soldaten posieren mit Bomben (MB)21350 | eBay
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https://ww2.dk/Airfields - Czechoslovakia.pdf Brünn (CZECH) (a.k.a. Brno, Slatina) (49 10 40 N – 16 40 00 E) General: airfield (Fliegerhorst) 185 km SE of Prague; airfield located 3 km SE of Brünn citycenter. History: a pre-war joint civil and military airfield built between 1925 and 1935 before the1938-39 annexation and occupation of Czechoslovakia. Following the German occupation,the airfield was used mainly for training until the last few months for the war whenoperational units began arriving.Dimensions: approx. 1150 x 1100 meters (1250 x 1200 yards) with a rectangular shape.Surface and Runways: grass surface on sandy soil. No paved runway. Equipped withperimeter lighting. there were refueling points at the NE and NW corners with bulk fuelstorage at the NE corner and at 2 points near the center of the N boundary. Theammunition storage site was in a quarry about 1 km off the SE corner.Infrastructure: had 6 hangars with paved aprons – 3 large, 2 medium and 1 mediumrepair-type in a row along the N boundary. Immediately behind the hangars werenumerous workshops and buildings for admin offices, flight control, station motor pool andgarages, stores warehouses and other support facilities including several blocks of barracks.The nearest rail connection was directly behind the row of hangars on the N boundary.Dispersal: no organized dispersals existed in late June 1944.Defenses: none noted in late June 1944.Remarks: 24 Aug 44 bombed by 15th AAF – 9 x Bf 109 G-8s and G-14s from SG 101 destroyed ordamaged on the ground.Operational Units: II./KG 77 (May-Oct 39); KGr. z.b.V. 40 (Mar 41); II./TG 5 (Aug 44);I./JG 53 (Apr 45); 10.(Pz)/SG 9 (Apr 45).School Units: Arbeitsplatz for Schule/FAR 72 (Fels am Wagram) (1939-40); FFS A/B 113(Mar 40 – Sep 43); BFS 2 then FFS B 32 (May 42 – Jan 45); II./SG 101 (May – Dec 44); Station Commands: Fl.Pl.Kdo. A 21/XVII (Jan 43 – Mar 44); Fl.H.Kdtr. A(o) 12/XVII (Apr44 – c.Apr 45)
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