BRANDENBURG-BRIEST AIRFIELD

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Drandenburc,,-Priest Airfield
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8 June 1951
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16 jet fir/liters with swent-;bac17 winr-s -0--e
at Brandenburg-Briest afrfied
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and left the field.
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28 aaept-back wing jet fighters covered with tar-
paulins and four uncovered
jet fighters of the sane type were seen south
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of the runway. The 23 jet fighters were coered with ticht-fitting light
gray. tarpaulins except
for two whose tarpaulins were dark bruln. (1)
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no flying
on all three days of observation
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about 2O to 45 ground porsonnel
drilled in forest stab-area (,Jagen) No 33 and then marched to the fliht
25X1C -control hut at the runway , about 35 pilots. ?mini.; from the
Goerden. Iandesanstalt? arrived at the (2) They
25X1 wore standard leather boots, field trousers and service caps. Somn wore
short leather jackets, others lc.T,7 linon-lie jackets with black belts.
-The pilots -Climbed into the aircraft without ladders. At 7:56 a.n., the
pircraft with the rod numbers 'axied to the runway, took off
al-A made a local flight. They landed a7an at 8:03 a.m. both aircraft
had a-red and almost horizontal stripe on the upper portion of their
rudder assemblies. After stopping the aircraft taxied back on the runway
and returned to their dispersal area where tha parked. It was seen throw:h
field classes that the roof of the 2ilot's cockpit slid back and that two
men climbed out of each plane.
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.? all of the aircraft, except for plane and two other
planes parked at the right and left outer sides of thelianorsal area,
taxied to the runway and took off in separate -elements of two. The first
two planes, each with a two-man crew, had the red
red stripes on their rudder asee*lies. Plane ilo took off with-
out being refueled. Oe.ren of the iircraftwhioh had taken off flew
the field in wedge formation. They hadred
and a red stripe on their rudder assemblies. A two-man crew was seen in at
least four of the planes. (3) The aircraft formd one line while flying a
left turn and thenlanded.individually beginning landing,
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the
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and dark stripes on
the. rudder assemblies were observed on eleven other pianos. The aircraft.
with had only one man and a rod. about 15 meters long,
pow-Ably an antenna, which projected beyond the rear section of the cock-
pit. Thi8 observationwas made while the planes came in for landing and
while the crews climbed out of the cockpits. The last plane landed at
All of the aircraft taxief.J, to their former parking. sites.
During flying activity., visibility-was about 4 to 5 kin and the sky was
overcast at an altitude of aI7Jout 2,0!DO meters. After landing, two man
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crews -worked on the landing gears of each piano for about, 15 minutes.
plane
It is -mosible that brake blocks. were being fitted. A tank trick approached
hich was the first to. land. The tank truck stoped.- whew its
rear side was at the left nide of the. nose. TM) men put a hose about as
thick as a manes arm into an apertum on the loft Side of the fuselage
between the nose and the wing. Pceljng took about 5 mdnutes it was not ob-
served that a pump was being usse. Alter this process the tank truck moved
next to the other three tank trucks apposite the runway. The 'three trucks
waited for aircraft to come in for landing. All planes that landed rem
refueled, two planes being refueled from one tank truck. The two planes
which were parked at the outer sides of the dispersal area were not re-
fuelod.- After refueling two planes, each tank truck moved to ':he fuel dump
for refilling and then returned to the dispersal aref.A. It -o= repeatedly
observed that refueling took about 8 minutes and 30 seconds The aperture
in which tho h0Ee MV6 placed in could not be seen prior to or af:tor re-
fueling.
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fewflights were made. with iudiv-Jdual. planes, also at niht botwoon I 25X1
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40 and 40 since aircraft weapons were adjusted on a small firing range,
located nearby Jagon 50 on the northern edge of the restricted area. The
.firing range, 15 x 250 motors, had sand ? walls on the side whieh-aere about
3 to it meters high and a wall in. front about 5 to 6 motors highc. Ti concrete
wall 50 cm x 3 meters with tf;ilber on top was in front of the sand wall.
The aircraft of the field taxied. to the firing range on a concrete strip
which was considerably damaged. Firing was 2raticed from a O:Lstance of
about 100 meters. Short Inn's-Ls Of about 8 to. 10 rounds were fired once, or
twice then followed with about five individual snots. This practice lasted
one minute. A machine 5;un was probably being used. About 8 to 10 individual
shots with a rather dull sound were then fired, probably by a 20-mm aircraft
cannon. It is believed that the weapons were new and were being adjusttsd to
the aircraft.
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eight flatcars six of which wore loaded with two
Coxes Gaon, an two loaded with one box each, were standing on the spur track
of the Goorden Landosanstalt, The boxes were o;Anted gray-blue and measured
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the Soviets took tau days at most for assembli-g one plane.
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individual planes took off for flights lasting about 10. to 3.5
minutes.? Take of Ps were slow.. It required 10 to 15 minutes from the starting
of the engine until the plane was airborne.
four a lorb 210ne5 and 12 other jot fighters with swept-
back wings which were covered oiCh tar-pau)ins, were .)arked in the dis7arsal
area, the flights were
performed only by officers, or sergear\ts who would o pronots(1 to officers
upon receiving their flying lic(J..ises.
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with a mounted a rchliR:ht about 50 to &i, cm in ,
diameter was soon dnily movim to the radio beacon
on the eastera edre, oi the licit), It returned tho nag:t .:::toniin:7 at
1 1(4) The sesrchlizht.a. a ullally covered -1,di a tarpaitlin
duri.nr the day. It flashed up at vih.'.:, toward l'randenburr:?:,rado
airfield at an at7wle of about 61 '3.-ees .,-;hila .leving back and forth.
10., seven 1sr7,o railroa(
Priest airfield
were shuntod to
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tank cars etn' -;toro f11/111-1 -frl no z.,.3,11.1, trnck of
seven tJ!a cars
le 27aG-15s wore canted at the
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counted at , to in?a. (5) flet7Joc'_ )1
t there ,tee no
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f1ying? Only individual take?of:? "7,,Y,,, n.,0? Four jet fters were seen
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It ir -r L 3or 46 ea ;I: '41 t
previously obsc,:ved were bromt?
The Landesansttlt in occunied
aciil itely clarified
g.ay t4rpaulins wore usod.TarToaulins
,.nel of the fighter roginent.
if: the fhter nas not been
" tat the aircraft have
on their rudder assemblies,
no4evor, inoicn e;:: that the :bers possibly. ranzo bet?
It is believed possible that th different senrcos h
ave
rnother the first
have been seen in Koc,41 ?...L.r?,? a :;1VVV
(111.ri.3ion is also StOtiOO.J' iLo7wor it has not been :reporizsd
whethi...' the aircraft in Koethen are tIle ?seaters. rAL%-: two?seater jot aircraft,
have Also been seen at louruppin airfiad. it io posiA7oly believed that a
two...Jester version of the LiCf?l5 plane os been rocon-iy ststioneC in the,
let'.:."Drle of Germany. rt has not been. deter.-.11.nod the VVar tho eireryft are
i-..ainers or planes which are rood by taotical formation for 12
o,-.eial om2ley,..?
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The radio inFli%n11,14i^r' "10 prOVi011ly 7!)Ort00.
I it is probabl:y?a iii a: beacon.
Trio 11.11:1NW Obk.; 01'70(1 the hi. :he St Ea far /."0 202' ? cl from prendon.?
burc?fldest?
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