RECONSTRUCTION AT STENDAL AIRFIELD

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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 10, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
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PLACE &
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on Stendal airfield which gives information under the following headings:
(1) Concrete Work, (2) Hardstandings/Taxiways, (3) Soviet Antitank Unit
Occupying Airfield Domestic Site, and (4) Helicopters. A rough sketch
showing the layout of the 50-meter-wide hardstanding and associated taxiways
is also included.
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Map References:
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Attached as Appendix "e" is a rough sketch
plan showing the final completed layout of
the 50 metre wide hardstanding and associated
taxiways.
1. General. All concrete work had by the 22ni November 1957 been
completed, and the final smoothing and sweeping of all surfaces was then
in progress. The greater part of the labour force provided by the
BAU UNION BRANDENBURG had by then been transferred to other sites.
2. Hardstandings/Taxiways.
(a) The concreting of the 50 metre wide hardstanding located
north of the parallel taxiway has been completed; together with that of
the inner transverse taxiway linking it to the parallel taxiway. The
length of the transverse taxiways linking the 50 metre wide hardstandin.g to
the parallel taxiway is 75 metres, and the distance between the inner aN."f
the easternmost transverse taxiways is 115 metres.
(b) The final fillet joining the 10 metre wide concrete road
leading northwards from the 50 metre wide hardstanding to the existing
(former Luftwaffe) apron at approximately MR 9130 3575 has also been
% competed.
(o) Similarly the concrete laying on the 14 metre wide track le sing
westwards from the 59 metre wide hardstanding has also been finished.
This track now consists of a 190 metre stretch loading due west, followed
by ?. 35 metre section leading approximately west north west, and finally
a 25 metre long section leading approximately north-west, terminating near
the existing hangars. The distance between the southern edge of the
190 metro stretch of this track and the northern edge of the parallel
runway is 11;1 metres.
(d) The 80m. X 30m. platform on the eastern side of the eastern-
most transversc taxiriay con:~octing the 50 metre wide hardstanding with ti
parallel taxiway has also boon completed. Its approximate siting is
shown in Appendix "A".
(o) The underground drainage system for the 50 metre wide
hardstanding has been completed amd connected up to the main soak away
near the south east corner of the runway.
3. Soviet Anti-tr.ank Unit OcciApying Airfield Domestic Site
(a) Approximately half of the personnel b~1on,ing to the Soviet
anti-tank unit occupying the domestic site on the airfield returned to t~;;
Soviet Union during, the first half of November, having completed their
tour of duty in Germany. They were immediately replaced by fresh trocp.:50X1-H U M
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and by the 22nd November the unit was at full strength.
(b) The unit is equipped with 63 guns, fitted v
type wheels and box section trail legs. These are keT
hangars.
(c) Shortly before midnight on the 31st October
number of tracked prime movers, covered with tarpaulins, wer`
from flats at the airfield aiding and driven into the hangars aa,,,
to the domestic site. Troops wearing artillery insignia were in cu-of them. Up to the 22nd November these vehicles had-not been seen to
emerge from these hangars,
4. Holioopt_
A helicopter unit comprising three machines was stationed on the
airfield during the whole of the four weeks prior to 22nd November. No
other aircraft used the airfield during this period.
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18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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on Stendal airfield which gives information under the following headings:
(1) Concrete Work, (2) Hardstandings/Taxiways, (3) Soviet Antitank Unit
Occupying Airfield Domestic Site, and (4) Helicopters. A rough sketch
showing the layout of the 50-meter-wide hardstanding and associated taxiways
is also included.
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Reconstruction at Stendal Airfield DATE DISTR. 10 JAN 1958
NO. PAGES 1
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
report 50X1-HU
on Stendal airfield which gives information under the following headings:
(1) Concrete Work, (2) Hardstandings/Texiways, (3) Soviet Antitank Unit
Occupying Airfield Domestic Site, and (I+) Helicopters. A rough sketch
showing the layout of the 50-meter-wide hardstanding and associated taxiways
is also included.
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