AIR FORCE TRAINING INSTALLATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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11 i and prior thereto, I. tG-.15?s practiced firing at Anklarn airfield, a e..1 B
of the jet fighters ap?)roached in level flight and fired one round at targets in
the aouthwestorn corner of the installation'..'
nstallation. Prior to the firing,
occupied by 1 officer and 4 Iii, drove to the bunker at the field and returned
aft.ar the firing practice to the billets at 2.3 1"riedlaonder 6trasse6 The field was
guarded Only during the firing practices.
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s, a on aplanes was also obuorved in good
weather,,' arachuting was generally done on Thursdays and &aturdays. `hrrrce oflirn-1?25X1
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2. `)Orin; the period frog oups of is to 6 G 15s fired at ground
targets sot ~:.}~ at the field arachutin.-, f
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a-in; practice and parachute training were; also observed between
13urinCr', this p~?riodx signs in Gerriari and t"ussi.an wore u0ethd around the field and
warned the local population that firing was being held at the i13:,tal^.ation?
repeated3 ,r observes'. V.: air force soldiovs looked 'for de s
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represent ; four.-on;; sic circrafto i''ron tire: to tire, the targets on the gro:md
which rc,rosentad aircraft were covered ,with white ,
a:~ld, ~'1?ie impacts 02 the shots
fired were within a radius of 10 nre tors around the duix.1y aircraft, There repro
nany duci3. i telephone line led the the airfield billets 1 1o ,`,
south of the aircraft dun.u.oc. the air force detail Was col used of 3 officers Ia ld
30 E, (1)
tladorrr? zosso;? Tio.~binY range.
4, Oxi a GeMa firm was orderer to nanufacture bolts for two observation
towers to be constructe on the ~zaclorr-;tosco~d (11 54/u 2
0) borlbine? ra~l;~eo One of the
toners, Which was 27 rooters high, was erected about 200 metors South of the vlas--
huette-gaxocr set:-1le;:wnts the tower had throe intermediate platforms and was built`
on a concrete founds ;Iona 'l spiral staircase led to the first and ocond platforms"
A wo..denn shed with a telephone conloction wkK
stalled on the second -alctform.
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A table.,, a map, pyrotechnic pi L tols, and a: almition were observed in this
shodc: P& woo.dden shod with windows was erected on the third platforrl. zt Ocrrlan
battery ca .uander'a telescope was ae .n thorn, The socond tawor, which was
24 deters high, and con>trzcte in t e sane as the first one, was 1oc tot: about
2 km northeast of =~oceovr. The entire borilbinj; rrarsg o coulyd be obse'vec? fro/i t :es
two tc'vors, c;:cr?irig to local residents, twin-jet aircraft con ucto(I practice
bombing on the ran.-,F.,. A lumber firm in 'ittstock was orderer. to :aanufacture 100
wooden tank dum:iies for the b .AAn,:, ranae.-nother fir'a ,has to deliver 50 la: ps.
I3etwoc'n I the "osencck estato quartorecl a sovict :dx r'orco re a r
shop unit Which used This unit 1 B
erected an oliorvaLion ewer on .r5 newly es a b 'shoe' borahine- rail ;o in the
Oado,r,-Pleu Gliericke-Pfalzheit -;tios: ova area, abut 1 ice, south of 31a: hhuetto-
Oadaw,t in forest sub-Care (Jag.,n) 13, the to,?ter, o wooden structure, was
about 30 meters high and braced by ste::l cables. The to-;er was provided tirith
thrc. observation rooms, one being located at the base of t`I
e toile s one at a
height of 20 peters, a.- td on top of the toner. Local residents stated that
two ,rore such towers had been erected in this area.
One the observation tower nc it Ulashuette-Gad ov; was occupied by 20 air
force officers and =. another observation tower, which was 20 meters high, was
observed on the nosraow-Raegelin (II 55/r 20) highway. near kilometer marker 23.9
On nine jet boaters were obae;rved flying in .for.:Iatiora at an altitude
of about 1s0O0 meters toward Oadow, All aircraft released one bor1, each sir.niltane_.
oust q. Tho smoke of the exploding bombs mushroom d about 50 meters high. After
the bomb release, some of the tre-s caught on faxed - woman who had be-,n in the
area stated that she had found a c:,ntainer similar to an auxiliary fuel tank
near the bombing range, 'hc had -~ eked it up but dro,)')od it again because the
contra ;:Eer had singed her c1;)the: ,
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bom cratora were observe.'. near `'lac>iriet ;e? Taus tower, the top of which was
glrys red-an, was about 50;) r sters soUtheast of Ol.ashuet rod A femle resident from
Glashae)tte sold that 30 to 24o aixcras t :1,ac' released Nab` about ei ht days ago
and that :)vi ; -'.s on the we den tower had observed the Jindow panes in
' is >crx r~ adaty Zc otzen 3,1d re zc? f a
dosirofeds ware; rc;,)laced
by boards, fft I with generators .7e-,e
observed in boo eon.
s too twin-jet botbars were observed twice over the os:;aty bombi
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rank;, act p one releasedd, t:':o bombs from very high altitudes, ccor-in-? to
local residents, an air force detail of 80 to 100 men was quartered in 'osenox
estate""
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ILO,. On I give jet a: i- hters fired at the target area of Schveinrich troop
tray ri i rag grounds east of Lake Transer. the pianos, which approached from the
north at an altitude of about 1,00,) r. t:;yrs, individually dived and fired one
round each from a height of about 23.) meter.. They pulled out of the dive at
an altitude of about 103 meters.
1lr. On type--i7 Jet bombers practiced bore" ing over uc vreinrich troop
training grounds, he )lanes, flying in three flights at interval: of about 3
minutoss approached from the south at an altitude of about 4: 000 meters, he
formations flew at the same altitude and speed while each plane drop ;ad one bor:Ib;
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25X1A 12. On bombing was practiced by ,;et bonbors over the tart area
in tI woods east of uootzen, c'iine aircraft v0hich ware ilyin; in throe
flights one after the other at an altitude of about 3,00) r.:ters, ?'arrcod
a single line before a P approaching the tarot area, ? Flyin; in this f ooccation
the 1a-te: made one circle around the target area and, when reaching the
southern starting point, they flew straight north while each plane drop-od a
borabp After releasing; their bonbsethe aircraft first flew to the east and then
to the south while regrouping into the throe flight formations. A similar
exercise was executed b seven jet borlbors oft and by fivo jet 25X1 A
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Kumnaersdorf Bomhinr,
l3. an 0 a target vil ; age, erected by the ovi :t^, was o'.:served on Kurx-:er; --
dorf firing range, At 3 p,n,, 21.E twin--en:ine boi*cru practiced live bombing
at this villa.-P. ubsequently, 30 sirigle-en _ne ground attack aircraft made log;
level attacks with aircraft arnan ent, zrit~,-; the exercise, four jot fig':itors
circled over the area at a hi,;h altitude,
Firing i.ange of Laerz Airfield.
l1 a urine the p. ri od from a firiri, ra.z ;o for jet fighters
was ob,oer? od southwest of Kl zow i K arz ? cap:,ted, by
all civilians, In s i. o -l5,s 25X1 A
wer , observed app-iroaching the ft ring range at low a.~Jltit~udes, !'lsi4. -
@"~~? he j binO to an ~.l a1 r. lril "tTc i ~.? of ~ ~,s `) '.I?Q { V was
~~It ~~WWZi ~ 'e QJ. :l 7j00 Y. ~tors J, his waV
repeated several times,
Rotschurli-t.de Airfield,
15, About 9:4Q a,mA I a bi piano took off from 'andonburg ; Arado airfield
and lauded at aiotscho?'lindo airfield. he plane taxied to .11'k, a stort2 edge of
the installation, 1i11 roads in the vicinity of the airfield ware blocked by
Soviet Air rorco sentries. At 10 a,m,, four . ~;-l5s coming from the direction
of E:riest appr'oaciced the field at an altitude of about 1, 00?) meters, 'hey dived
and each plane fired three rounds from its camion in rapid succession from an
altitude of. about 200 meters, '#he planes fired at a target laid out at the field.
All the shots fired were 'hits, tl6hile firing, the planes dived wit:iin 5O mtcrs
of the ground and then climbed to about 1,00) nters. About 11 a,m,pfour other
tti0-l5s which arrived from the direction of Lriest pert )fried the same ria`Ieuver.
The target, a wooden frame 3x4 met.. rs covered. with fabric, was removed from the
field by soldiars when the firing; practice laws completed,
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the biplane again took off in the direction of Brandenburg,.
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CCori !ant s .
(:t.) a n aisld is not occupied by an air ?u-rit~, According to available
infor-ation, the inota? U ation i s used as a firing range ty the fighter re , a:ien.t
located in P onomuende, A1'i.rinC was practiced mostly in lo-i7-level flights or
glides.
(2) The existence of a bombing range in the Schwei -crich area was known previously.
Details on the location a?id status of the range are received for the first time,
but ayo ,ear credible since they are reported ';;. five different sources, it
appears that the ran-ge is used mainly by jot bomberformations franc Oranien-y
burg and Jueterl~ogo for location of the bombin ra -x., see An.uex 1.d
{:i) This ixziaz ;Nation is believed to refer to the firing ra.i a of Laerz airfield,
For location of the firing range, see Annex 2,
(4) ilotscherliride: airfield is used for f_ra-ng practices at ground tar?cts by the
fighter rogirrenis scat r_orLed in i3ra?ldo iburg wriest,
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