LAERZ AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015300430002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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UATION see below ^r: OBTAINED. _
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DATE OF CONTENT
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3. On 15, 16, 17, nnd 18 ,e,ptember 1Q52t there was individual ard formation flying
tw 141G-15s a the field, Formations of up to 12 MiG-;15s were obnerved,
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in September, source determined that the previously reported second taxiway in te
southwestern nor ;ion of the field consisted pay of a curved concrete strip on
Ilhich the Aircraft were parked, Na AAA. embla(,ement was seen them-2
k bunker built into a low ridee Ard n single-story, low wooden bui1din7 north of it
were observed hetwern the Ret,low-M1row highwu and the runway oarel]el to this
hihway Souruii determined that tie hoard fen ,e around the fell recedes in the
northwesterl -orner near the southern bank of Srmpfsee a lake, end fel,owz a ditAl
to the nortnelst as far as a noint About l50 meters wet or thr northern ed cf fie
;thort rucr!av. it then narn'lels the runay to i;le ricr'th-nerthwr,t until At turns ,o
-he (a-, northeast nt a nrint about 125 meters -outh of the Vio4Aen-Miro7T
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5- On 22 Senemer, source counted 46 MiflJ 9r type= 29 aircraft at the f-eld. Twenty
of these ',tiros were ped-ed near the cnal, Jet fighte.s
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. runway" ,,even teen jet 2ighters1
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were observed flyinfr 1'1:Ting was also obse7ved on 27 Sentember .r:Ru ur.toi)er.,
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On 23 Sertember, solvce observed 28 empty aircraft crates beinc truckeo from the
rieinij of the tank dump to the spur track of the field where they wer . loadeci
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moar of a special crane on railroad cars which loft toward Ellerh-17. The
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and 25 were identified on 6 crater. he walls of the crate: consited
or 1,,,ned and dove-tailed board: about 2 cm thick. The corners of tae crat,:r hid
sn(rh metal covers % and their tom were vaulted and protect,d with roofing rawer,
The crate which could not be dirassemblod were fitted with orenings 150x100 em
oa both front sides. One crate waf loaded on a fiatcar,, On 2). neetember% no
aircraft crates were seen at the edre of the wood: near the fuel dumrnol
The crate: used for the shirment of aircraft enrines consisted of smooth boards
fastened by iron vaults. The crates consisted of two sections nource saw a jet
engine wraTred in oiled paper in one of these crates.3
A workshop in which about 20 hussians worked on work benches was observed north
of the garages located in the triangle formed by the Ellerholz-hechlin and
hochlin-hetzow highways. A spare earte depot was located in a arane near this
workshop. Source saw aircraft wings and metal propeller in this buildinr. the
depot and workrhop were permanently guarded by Ooviet soldiers, The cratne with
aircraft engines were stored in a garage adjacent to the roar, parts depot.
10. Between 10 and 20 eotenberc work was being done on the garage in the restrntoted
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an air force unit almost daily in the area between the single-story builOinr,,,s and
the garages
11. In Sentember, aircraft revetments were belay built by the ride of the taxiway near
the fuel damp, the revetm(nt: cnmisted of loss nrotected by roe fina paper and
covereo with a layer of earth 25 cm thick, *Illey were oren toward the taTiway,
and thrre was a gar between the rear side and the two sidcwalls. At its widest
sectinn, the revetments had a diameter or about 12 meters% they tapered toward
the. roar side, cieven such revetment: were comrletern, two were alder construction,
and three more were staked off. The revetment: wer, 25 meter: anirt0 uther
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whick was blocked to traffic,
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i3: ?ir activity observed at the field durinr the period from 15 through 30 eotenber
included:
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practiced formation flying, three grouor of five planes each fl3ing in wedre
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of un to 12 planes were seem.
hrom 9
formation flying by la0-15r
from 8 a.m. to
a.m. to 6 p.n., formation flyinr was nrarticed. l'ormations
Two single-or/nine olanes fitted with radial enrines
rere also observed flying3
18 SeTtember. There was flying from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m,, Most of the planes took off-
in grours of -two.
19 September0 There was flying from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m,
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200 22 ,,nd 23 September,
"Lhe t'S.171e
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There was no flvinr? aya, weather u...qs rain7 ,a0,st
was fl
vi - -V, ar. moctlV h I nrH vi e1rrt1 ni
_there was ilyinr from a.m, to 7
nvolved in individual flihtso
Groups of two nlanes tenk off between 7 a,m, and
Individual fIiri waF nracticed from 7:h5 a-m,
There was fly' ns from a.m, to 2 p,m,
There was no f1yinr.4
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11!, in the second half of September, the empty aircraft cratn were removed from
the fuel dnmn.. The last crates were entrainei. at the sour track on ?-3 LtTtem1T)er
he crates were nut on nkidr. and towed individually by caterpillar .t,rani :?A)
spur trar',, even flatcarF, each were loaded. with one crate Source did
riot observe that aircraft or aircraft cratos had been nut into there crater.-
. Since the crates were hanCled by three 1..ussians? they definitely must 11;Are
been emrty, h.e crates wer handled rather rour,hly with caterpilar
tnectors,,i
TAen the crates. were loaded CI flatcars, source observeci that the spur track
had snace for only one locomotive, 7 flatcars and one railroad crane car,
The limited space of th.:7 snur track made shuntinr operationF very. djiTioult-
A wooden arae 0x7 meters, was completed. about 750 meter: from te
eastern corner of the fliht control. station, and ? about 50 meters frc,m the
southern end of. the taxiway? The rarare had a capacity of 16 trUeks, A
wooden shed on a. concrete base mcasurine about 16x13 'meters wan observee.
about 20 meterF from the board fence and 150 meters east of the?bireti.n.7.
ares, Two trucks could be narked in this shed,5
J..6 There was an AAA emplacement In the ,Juthern corner of the field almost
exactly in line with the shorn; runway, Ten tents were seer rear the
omelacement; behind the tents there were underrround billftinffaciji ti es
The ;Tuns of the emTlacement wer, arranred in a circle, Alerts for the inn
crews were Founded by mean: n' an iron pour, Usually the crews were at the
,hinF about 9 minutes after the alert was sounded, Generally alerts lasted
from 1,5 to 60 minutpF, Source believed that no Afi dircctorr were avFil.Jle
at the emnlacement.,c
17. On 15 Scntember, source obserired near 7eustrolit,, a formation of 23 MC-15
:n1 tyre-2e nlann comin- from the direction of Laer7 airfield, Dn 17
Eectember, a( l5 and tyre-w aircraft flyinr individually or in -roulls of
two were observed over .:eustrelitq, The clanes had cone from the dire,Itiln of
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1, I 2,om tent, The dispatch of aircraft crates Was also r,:eorted from other
air ields in the Soviet Zone of Germany, The present report indicates that
the crates are returned emnty. On c, October 1952, a shipmelt of 78 crAtei
left Frink-furt/Oder toward Brest Litovsk,
------kaimunt, It was proviotely believeC, that this curved concrete str%r was
a second taxiway oaralleiiim: the taxiway which connects the southern and of
one runway of the western end of the other runway,
omment, The existence of snerinl e-atet7 for jet en:ines was rellortPd
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onvelon nre Antionr-,1 in Leer? The flyirw netivities reported followed
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Ui'oreviousiv observed Pattern, Formation flvinr was .being stressed,'
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some cases, they were erroneously referred to as henrars.
oreviously. In
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=dent, According to available information, two AA1', batteries
-nuiored with Ox37-mri runs eache are stationed in the northwestern portion
of tat' fieli and east of the new rerarcE respectively.
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