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The only relic of the airfield today is the 5000' runway, largely intact, overgrown with a thick cover of vegetation. Just northwest of the runway is a postwar antenna farm used by the
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fighter-bombers to deny the retreating German forces use of the facility. The airfield was taken about 5 March. Combat engineers from IX Engineer command moved in with the 820th
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all-weather runway over the bomb-cratered concrete runway, and performed minimal repairs to the facility to make it operational. On 29 March, the airfield was declared ready for Allied use and was designated as
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from the field from late March until the end of the war, attacking German army units, bridges and other ground targets of opportunity throughout
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Americans closed the airfield the facility was never reopened. Eventually all of the facilities were removed and the land turned over for agricultural use.
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the airfield's ground station. The antenna farm is fenced to restrict entry, with a concrete access road from the K 61 highway, which bisects the former airfield.
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