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Peronne-St Quentin Airfield

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prepared for construction. A modern all-weather concrete NATO jet runway was laid down aligned 09/27 (east-west), with taxiways and dispersal areas for three fighter squadrons. The dispersals were designed in a circular marguerite system of hardstands which could be revetted later with earth for added aircraft protection. Typically, the marguerite consisted of 15 to 18 hardstands, with each hardstand capable of parking one or two aircraft, allowing the planes to be spaced approximately 150 ft (46 m) apart. Each squadron was assigned to a separate hangar/hardstand complex.
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some had been repaired by the American combat engineers, most were in ruins. The French Air Force had no interest in the facility, and there was no money available to restore and rebuilt the prewar airport. As a result, the Air Ministry leased the land, concrete runways, structures and all, out to farmers for agricultural use, sending in unexploded ordnance teams to remove the dangerous munitions.
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In French control after the war, the airport sat abandoned for years. There was much unexploded ordnance at the site which needed to be removed, as well as the wreckage of German and Allied aircraft. All of the buildings at the base were destroyed by the Allied air attacks or demolition, and although
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In addition to the airfield, tents were used for billeting and also for support facilities; an access road was built to the existing road infrastructure; a dump for supplies, ammunition, and gasoline drums, along with a drinkable water supply and minimal electrical grid for communications and station
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first strike survival in both conventional and nuclear wars had to be considered. The main air bases were built on small parcels of land with very limited dispersal space. It was decided to use Péronne as an emergency "backup" airfield, known as Saint Quentin-Estres Air Base, consisting of a "bare
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Today, the NATO runway and taxiway are used by the airport, however, the runway has been shortened, with about half its length as the active airport runway. The wartime 04/22 still exists in a very deteriorated condition, unused. It appears that much of the enclosing taxiway have been turned into
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With the abandonment of the facility by NATO, the airfield was acquired by the local government and redeveloped into a commercial airport. The marguerite dispersal hardstands were torn up and sold for hardcore aggregate, with a small part of the 22 end of the old wartime runway used for a parking
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Beginning about 1954, French demolition companies returned to Péronne and began demolishing the structures and removing the wreckage of the World War II air base. French Army Explosive demolition teams were brought in to safely remove unexploded ordnance remaining from the war and the site was
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American Ninth Army units moved through the area in early September 1944, heading towards Saint-Quentin. On 5 September, the IX Engineer Command 862d Engineer Aviation Battalion moved in and began a quick rehabilitation of the base so it could be used by American aircraft. It was declared
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Today, the skydiving dropzone of Paris is hosted here. Many skydiving clubs like Saut en Parachute Paris are using this dropzone for their activities. On a yearly basis, there are between 30 000 and 40 000 skydiving jumps, including tandem, PAC (the French
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Other than the occasional touch-and-go landing of NATO (USAF) aircraft, Péronne Air Base was never used. With the French withdrawal from the integrated military component of NATO in 1967, the base was abandoned.
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In addition, the Germans laid down two 1,500 m (4,900 ft) all-weather concrete runways at the airport, aligned 04/22 and 09/27. Presumably, this was due to the fortification of the
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Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
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commitment to establish a modern air force base at the site. NATO faced several problems when attempting to solve the air power survival equation. Planning for a
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heavy bomber fleets attacking targets in Occupied Europe and Germany. Previously not attacked by Allied bombers, the airport came under frequent attack by
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units for several years. Beginning in 1944, several Luftwaffe anti-aircraft units, Flak-Regiment 87 and Flak-Regiment 19 based their batteries of
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civil airport, consisting of a terminal, hangar, some support buildings and a grass airfield, serving the nearby city of Saint-Quentin.
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bones" facility of a runway with minimal facilities intended for use by all NATO air forces to disperse their aircraft in case of war.
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397th Bombardment Group Martin B-26B-55-MA Marauder 42-96153 at Péronne Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) A-72, January 1945.
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combat units on 6 September, only a few days after its capture from German forces, being designated as
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mostly with 500-pound general-purpose bombs; unguided rockets and .50 caliber machine gun sweeps when
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McAuliffe, Jerome J (2005): U.S. Air Force in France 1950-1967, Chapter 17, Dispersed Operating Bases
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ramp. A new terminal and small hangars for private aircraft were erected.
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G day interceptor fighters. From Péronne, JG 5 began attacking the USAAF
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It was seized by the Germans in June 1940 during the early part of the
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When the combat units moved out, Péronne was turned over to
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Beginning in mid-June 1944, elements of the "Arctic Ocean
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Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in France
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49°52′11″N 003°01′43″E / 49.86972°N 3.02861°E / 49.86972; 3.02861
LFAG is located in France
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ICAO
France
Saint-Quentin
Paris
general aviation
World War II
Battle of France
Luftwaffe
8.8 cm (88mm) FlaK
Pas-de-Calais
Jagdgeschwader 5
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Eighth Air Force
Ninth Air Force
B-26 Marauder
P-47 Thunderbolts
Eighth Air Force
B-17s
B-24s

Ninth Air Force

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