AIR FORCE TRAINING FIELDS IN EAST GERMANY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300500009-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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41r Force Training Fields in East Germany
see 1. below - ..141,,i__UATION OBTAINED
OF Jarnaary to 2 June 1953
OBTANED: DME PREPARED
?..42RENCES__
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4 - 2 sketches 2 maps see note be ev.
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Arpotarogettormoill,2, Firing at ground targets was practiced by jet fighore at the .Pken
firing rake between 2 p.m. and 500 p.m, on 19 March /953. At intervals of 10 to .15
inutes, several jet fighters flying aft of each other a)proached the earget ren,e eee
20A Itireci at the_rround targets from al altitede of about 200 meters Radio truck
'occupied by officers and EM, was parked on the northwestern edge of -,;he
etelft. Between 9 eri. and 2 p.m, on 6 April, jet fighters fired at airereft
eelhowettee marked on the ground. The radio truck waa agein observed ae the field.1
.PArt,hogggleldeproLtmelorga Vo firing at ground targets was obseeved at Barth
eirrield in January and February 1953,
3. On 22 March ten workers wer- encat:ed in cleaning work on the field bue no re-
eonstruction work was observe4.2
Islalla11M;111.ETEatergROte. 712 early 1953D the area of the
training field near Kreuebruch, which had been used as an airfield durLeg the war,
bordered on fielde to the northi on woods to the east and south, and on the Ideben-
waide-Basdorf railroad line to the west. No buildings existed at the field exeept for
a low wooden building south of the Bismarck forester's house, in the eastern section
of the field there were to watchtowers, each about 5 meters high, and west of the
towers were 3 or 4 practice Utrets, each about 2 meters square which had already
been located there for a long period without b ing exchanged. Some time ago l workers
deg off the grass cover on some spots and filled these spots with white and, No
reree or sentries were observed at the field.
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Ibefore the
the low wooden practices. sterted?
eoNeets arrived on trucks and occupied building south (yr the
forester's house. On the Volleying day?
wouid arrive field.
1 radio truck and 1 or 2 addit),onal trucks
at the
Miring activity was repeatedly observed at the field in early March 1953
as conducted between 29 May and 2 June 1953, except on 1 June. et 8 a.m.
;AGet5s flying in elerent foreeetion approached at an altitude of about Jo
ace a large left bank over the field yhile increasine the distance frem
and shortly aftereard, fired 3 or 4 ei1eta3ee
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500 meters,
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8, Krwm,j201?oximg, Daring the period from 28 April to 10 May 1953p
practices were observed at the Kremmen range only on 4 May while there was
e high coiling. Two formations, one of two and one of four single-engine pieen.
flee over the field at about iet15 a.m. The formation of four planes broke
up while circling widely over the field and reducing the altitu-'e to 300 or
250 meters. Subsequently, the two planes flyLng in an element released one
bomb each end, in horizontal flight practiced the release of individual bomhe
e total of 18 bombs were dropped. On the other days of observation, duds were
collected and demolished and bomb crates were filled and leveled again.
Daring the period from 17 to 24 May 1953, bonbing wee-practiced by four
single-engine planes which caMe down to an altitude of about 200 neters for
releasing their bombs over the swamp referred tolNiLach.
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linde target range was about 10 km south of Brandenburg and west cef' highway
Ao 102. The exact field boundary could not be observed as no fence or signboards
were available The eastern edge of the field was about 100 meters west of
highway No 102, west of Rotscherlinde, the western edge was near the branden2eeee?
,Beleig railroad lines and the northern edge bordered on the autobahn. A
farmhouse of Rotscherlinde was permanently oecupied by a detail of about 12 .
eoldieree The high looitout post, 8 to '40 meters hieh. on the southern edge at
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at targets was practiced by ;!et fighters and that eartridge cases of weaponsee
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caliber of 20 to 40 mm were repeatedly found in the vicinity of the field,' .
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I EOUVILL T4e'! range is wed by the Tighter regiment stationed ct
goethen airfield.
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the location 0 the
:eieeng range on a map at a scale of lt25,000,, Or map sections see Annex 1.
25X1 2,I The former airfield at Barth is used as target range by the
fighter regiments of the Twenty-Fourth air Army 'stationed at Puetnitz oirfield,
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range by fighter planes I ts the target range is not e
from 'anew it is probably used by the fighten regiments stationed at inow
airfield, For location sketch see Annex 2-
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the field was probably used by the fighter regiments at 'inow airfield,
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\The Xremmen ranee is used ler the ground attack unite,. of the
Twenty-Foueth hir ermy which practiee fieing at ground targets and bcmlAng
there,
99,1iment For locatim of th tscherlinde target range, see Annex 3
Is a map section at a scale of 125000. The field boundaries are entered on
the basis of previous inforeetion. The target ranee in noe0 by the finilter
eegiment etetioned at BrandenburBrieet airfield.
tts Annexes 2 and 4 are attached to all copies of the report Annexe-m 1
and 3 are disseminated as follows: Army (12), Air (6) CCI (2).
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