DREWITZ AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005500340009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, kourteen twin--enj4,ine aircraft and fourteen plames
of the same typo were countoo at the Dre;itz (0 52/
/A 6) airfield. here was no fiying, aever;a tank trucks and truck
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were seen at the field.
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2. The following features of the twig-engine planes were identified from
non distance of up to 100 meters. Some planes had one cockpit and some
two, but there were no of er differences in their form, troth types of p1 esl
had in-line enF,ines, as determined by the sin exhaust pipes on one side.
These planes had radiators under their engines, ruddsr assemblies which
were almost round, a tail wheel slid fitly forward of leadin E edge of
elevator assembly, and a pointed nose which was not .assed. It was
previously observed during, flights, that sortie planes of this type had
a r1arsed-in section aft of the nose, under the fuselage, and f ;rwurd
of the pilot's seat,
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3, The Propeller hubs, the leading; edges of the tudder assernbi r and tie
Irudder assembly -,f the planes *ere painted red or blues
For the :tFRY, ic:e it was obsc:r?ved that L. crated bombs were lying
beside each of the 2' planes. teach bomb, about 1 meter long and _0 an
in di:vneter, had four fins attached at one end. Fran the sire o f fire
fuselage it was assumed that the bombs wire mounted in the fuselat;,e in
groups of three placed horizontally above each ogler, in groups of two
taeh'-id each other
, and in groups. of two side by side. The planes had
uwo guns ;Mounted side by side in the upper section of the nose,
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regiment. As observed at other airfields in the Soviet cone of Germany,
the bomber units seen to have been equip;equipped with a new series of P.I? -2s,
the olanes are possibly a version of the PE-3. According to reports by
this type of plane is apparently fitted for releasing
om, s althoUgh the plexiglass nose was not of the same shape as those
previously seen. The assumption t,iat a version of tite Pi;-3 night be
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letter of 16 October 1978 from the
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Archivist of the United States.
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concerned is supported by the unconfirmed statement that two,
appar ::ntly stationary, weapons are fitted in the nose. One or two. cock-
pits were noticed on planes-with and without plexiglass noses.
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