MERSEBURG AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003701040002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 19, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/06/11: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003701040002-4
From the intensive air activity ol"erved, with more then 40 aircraft seen aloft
at the. sari a time on some days, while additional aircraft were still parked on
the field a total of 65 to 70 G15 or U Mi G-15s were
stationed at the field. Two alert flights were daily ebserved being parked south
of the east end of the runway'..
25X1
Intensive training in formation flying was also reported from other
airfields in the Soviet Zone of Genany during the period under review. Howeverp
fore a.tiond of up to 32 aircraft were not observed at any other airfield than Merse-
burg. During 1953, an average of 33 MG-15, _ or U- MG-15s were observed at Mor- seburg
airfield. This number exceeded by 5 to 8 aircraft the aircraft strength of other
airfields which were also occuried by only one fighter regiment. This larger air- .
craft strength at erseburg airfield could be, explained by the presence at Erfurt.
-Bindersleben airfield of an alert writ t which Vaasa fenee tot .e i Yet ;r di?fl i~o
. in i4ersebug? However, since late ova robe ? 1953,
be explained. The observations made at other airfields in gave Soviet Zone of German
did nou Yield . y indications of a possible transfer to Mgrs eburg of anotber fight r
a considerable increase of aircraft at Merseburg airfield which camot
u t of the ` ,enty-Fourth Air Army. The presence of a second alert flight
however. medicate that a second uni-Ij 1s
25M.
Approved For Release 2009/06/11: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003701040002-4