GADOW-ROSSOW BOMBING RANGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005100620008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Cadow Rossou Bombing Range
TOPIC.
EVALUATION....
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DATE OBTAINED! 'E PREPARED 10 6eprvOmiber 1954
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1. The following observations were made at the Gadow-Ro:-sow bombing
range between 14 July and 12 August 1054:
14-to 23 July, No bon?h ing was Practiced.
27 July. About 2100, 2 T1-lOs dropped bombs at targets in Jagen
(forest district) 14/1-5. Detonations' were heard until 2300.
28 July. During the night, -bombing was practiced by conventional-
type aircraft.,
Au , st. During the morning, individual Ii 10.7 Practiced bombing
and firing with aircraft weapons.
6 August. Between 0800 and 1500, every 20 to 30 minutes detonations
of two bombs at short intervals were heard. No aircraft were seen but
jet aircraft were heard-flying at high altitudes.
10 Au,t At 2045, apparently Tl-lOs practiced bombing at targets
in Jagen 14/15. The aircraft flew individually and had set position
lights. One bomb detonated at a time.
12 August, About 0906, individual detonations were heard but no
aircraft were seen. 1
3. Radar reflector targets which were photographed in 1953 have been
observed continuously at the Gadow- ossow bombing range since
January/February 1953. A radix installation was located 5OO meters
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south of Fretzdorf and about 300 meters west of the highway.
Another radio installation.was observed on the -watchtower in
Jagen 103. A radio truck with recd antenna was usually parked ne-At
to this tower.
orment. The Gadow-Rossow bombing range is used by the
fighter regiments of the Northern Fighter Corps and by the
ground attack division in Pr andenburg o I1-23a were probably
practicing on 6 August 1954
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