BRANDIS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015800400007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Prandis Airfield
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1., The following ohaervati.ons were made at Trandis airfield between 19
October and 8 ;lcsveraber 1952:
19 and 20 October: There nas no air activity,
21 October. Between 12:35 and 2 p.m.,, individual local flights
in good -eeather o
22 0ctel'or,. The noise of Paz ;isles was ward from the encine test stand in
rainy . oataer,
23 Octol-er,, Two Li-2s ego towed to the take-off yooint but did not take
oft tined, and the vi:;ibility was liui.t,ed to about 3 kxa
2 October, At 2:30 pone, an Li-.2 circled arzce over the field, There vine
no air activity
26 October. Flo ili~lits wore F.: ode althou. - the weather vas favorat:,lo.
27 October. At noon, two Li-2s with red ?:larkin.Is circled once over the field.
2 October. 'A total of three Li-2c circled over the field at 11.:30 a ? .o and
' -).;i. T'ier'e was intensive local fl r-a.nl by :.'i:!-15 and IL-23 ;.)lanes at day and
:ni;ht .
29 Octeber, At 10 a.m., a single--en:.,ine .iir?hter landed at the field. At
nooon, an TI-2 with the to 7, ire die a local `light.
30 October. At 10 a.m., a single-engine fighter circled once over the field,
sere rasa 9/10 overcast and 'good visibility.
3,1 October, Bets een 0 and 10 a ?wc.?? the sinele-engine fighter flew over the
alt, tur,'e of fro,-.' 300 to 500 ncters. At the same tine, iiG-15s
cru.? '..eel thR fie',
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1 to 8 Nover.bero There was no air activity. The weather was ;;costly
An, esti;.iated 300 to 1,030 airs mn ore stationed .at the field. This
number was confi r used by a Cie: n worker employed at the field 6 The
no solo:eels,, One the ccrit;3and4-Irag officer
o e air uai t and the other one the eor a-eartd:i ng officer of the --round
personnel., were at the field,
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the about 30 M-29 stat3 rsned at the field bad
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I various colors o' their 7rcooe ier hubs and ,;,'-a'3
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sDor'adin; colors on their s .udc:er asLombli_es,> Planes
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had red propeller hubs and red rudder ass am,' ? ' planes
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~Zad yellow narkinrs, and planes
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had red rkings ~1anes had yr~1l
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r'a a any nlaraes }gad blue-gray ; rki gs All the
Li--2s
Red b
obset,
had a gray car , color c kept two which were inted a brI.
oxes ~, ea (+i 1 meter high,, ,)robably containing fire exti.a;:U= s ners?
ved at the dispersal areas,,, one box ]'belonging to two piannes o 2
;ht. gr` ,-jrj?
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5trasse on the southern edge of the s'!d
In about the middla of the southern edge of the laridia field there as a
pole, about 2 meters highs with a black box probably a telephone The
telephone was probably located there for the oatrols in this area,
6. At 5 pr:3a on 25 October.. ` do tank cars wore observed east of ::ar c lo 41,
On 30 October, one tank wns towed to the i eta,-ar?
7 In early Nover,?berp source learned that all the ernan - rso:lnel, except foiir
men, were dismi.,ss er' at tae a i_el ;.3
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l~ Co.-.,Lent,, flr&,ndis airfield is occupied bran air tr~ans,aor{, re"iI rzt
017 t tse `a Brent;- Fcurt h. Air .rmy. It a-.-).pears that this regi: aent conducts little
air activity at present, The which were observed flying over the
field--) belr n;; to the f i ghtzr rs,i.r_ents in Altenburg and .fier.seuzxri ,
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nU.i.pp. ri.?th at. rst 33 Li.-2 0 The ,carious color mu,rl .rags on the Yrol 1.1er
hubs ,nay distingu.ssh the individual squadrons
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Comment. It was also reoaorted I rc n o hnn- a r a_si rs that C or - r a workers
except a siia! :i21mber, possibly- 4 to 6 ` erso s , wer .i dismissed.
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Between 4 and 10 October,, 30 :me,n continuously worked on the board fence,
On the western edge of the landing, field,, the fence was comoleted as far
as a point in line with the runway. The poles bore set yap as far as the
middle of the southern ed;e of time landing field. The fence was about 2
meters high and coupletely boarded szc~,. The number of laborers working on
the fence was reduced to a uoi;:t 2.0 between 19 and 25 October and to about
10 itntil u hover t,e r0 The fern .e was con,nloted almost as far as the T-elitz e;r