WERNEUCHEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009000080010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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:x~wnny (Soviet one REPORT
,_erneuchen Airfield
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-- ,. ENCLOSURES (No. & TYPE
LLQATF PRFPARFn 27 September 1951
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soldie?s with their baggage left'a tr in and then a r orce
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the airfield, e car and trucks 50X1-HUM
th a er oaded with oxygen bot les.
were observe a the field. 50X1-HUM
'between 7 and 12 f ugust, no aircraft were seen at the field.
The first hangar seen from the west was closed. The two
hangars farthest to the east were open and 50X1-HUM
han'ars were -?uarrled.
construction had progressed
a a norria rate. Q ) About noon a grroximatel 10
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wua-u uaruerea in zne ->>arracits buildings. (2) Trucks
were observed at the field.
. On 31 July 1951, seven twin-engine aircraft with double
rud0er assemblies were towed out of the hangar No 3 at
"erneuchen airfield. (1) The aircraft engines were then
run fo? about 30 minutes after which the planes were brought
back into the hangars Hannars T ;o 1 and 2 were closed ands
guardeda Hangar T,o 4 .was closed but not guarded and hangars
1o 5 and 6 were er=pty. In the afternoon, 1 officer and
65 air force soldiors with their baage arrived by train 50X1-HUM
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4. T"ost of the laborers did grading work on the eastern section
of the landing field. Three tractors were used there. The
drainage ditch was provided w-+.th pipes as far as about 150
neters fron the runway, The rail way bed of the spur track
was comrleted except .or the strip from Park Str rise to the
water ,-,corks, where the top layer of crushed stones were not
f~~ lled in. cork had to be disconti
'hez the
r.achines were.in a bad condition. the
target date for the! completion ha TO }e postponed ~0 50X1-HUM
.. October 1;51. (5) Soviet inspectors -illegedly found that
the concrete cover in a .strip of the runway did not have the
prescribed thicimess. erefore a strip of about 20 meters
of the runway was toA and rebuilt. An advance detail of
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laborers of the Dauunion Firm had allegedly left for Strausberg
airfi??ld where a new concrete runway was to be built. (6)
On 23 and 24 August, the hangars at the field were 3u.arded
and no aircraft were observed. Bread deliveries were reduced
to a daily quantity of 550 to 6.).: keg
about IOU men ha d an that they were to be
replaced by old troops from Jueterboj Only air force officers,
E:'e and trucks the latter50X1-HUM
assigned to pick up the bread r:ticns, entered and left the
f:ie zd,
6a t:bcat 201 men were excavat`.ng east of the rung ay. power
shovel was utilized there. i:hile passing along the runway
source obsnr=-od that about 1 400 r:neters of the western
section was concreted,. The old spur trace ,";as removed. A strip
of about 350 meters between the eastern and western sections
of the runvay was still to be concreted. The drainage ditch
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+i v Jtern end of the runway and oxbonded toward
the west .,3as excavated to a length of 1 000 meters. Furrows
hicis run on both sides of the runway lead the :?:at~r from tFie
slo{):ng runway to the drainaTe ditches. Three ad I.itional cranes
.were set u at the loading site on the northern edge of the
field., so that the dui pcars were loaded by five cranes. About
30 laborers were excavating for the spur track on the southern
edgy of the fie1c"o Ties vi re laid on a section of the Line.
` .. Between 6 and 10 August, a total of 3.600 laborers were 50X1-HUM
working at .the field. .,In additional porter shovel. with a
capaci? of 1-cubic i Teter was used. An area of 141,000 square
meters was concreted. (7). The drainage pipes, north and south
of the runway and in the restricted areas, were laid in
concrete beds 20 cm thick. All the pipes were heavily reinforced.
On 3 i:,ugust, eight twin-engine aircraft were towed out of
han:Jar No 3, west of the flight control building, and brought
to ;rangar 17~o 1. They were arranged in such a manner to take 50X1-HUM
up as little space as possible.
.e pipes _la
to be. cf nsidersbly stronger because aircraft were to rr .v - at
the f eld which hind n.:.t ye C .Pen by Gerrlans and .-hich had
a -.vzng span of 120 :meters. 50X1-HUM
r3' ^etween 13 ant' 13 August, 3,300 1-,borers were employed ^t the
f g el.ds. Five .new steam engines 3 new Diesel engines,two 1-cubic
rmmeter over shovels and 2- -cubic meter. rlixers were additionally
used. The narrow-gaurye field ra11V~Jay trackage vas extended to
21 kn,. An area of 1648 r00 square meters ids concreted. (8) On
14, August , Colonel Zukolov or Zukolorov from order
inspected the field,
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airfield construction projects in the soviet Gone of Gernlany.
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