DOEBERITZ AIRFIELD

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Doeberitz Airfield
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DATE OF CONTENT 29 8eptember to 27 October 1952
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source learned that a power
line was to be laid to a rEdio installation at Aoppenrade which belonged
to Doeberitz airfield. Power for the radio installation was previously
supplied by a generator.'
Lt about 1:)5 p.m. on 8 October, 35 new trucks were being
unloaded at Locberitz airfield. All of
activity mere air force personnel.2
From 10 a.m. to I p.m0 ane from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. between 2 and 4 October
and on 6 October, individual flying was practiced at the field. On 20 Octo-
ber. about 60 IL-10s
the officers and EM involved in the
by about 30-11 10s1
The southern wage of the field was occupied
On 3 October, it was ordered that houses No 161 20, 22, 271 280 29, 30 and 31
be provided with heating elonorts and that the attics of those houses be reno-
vated immediately. The arrival of now troops waE apparently expected because
250 new bedsteads were haul3d to the barracks installations. Up to 23 Otobcr,
the attics were not yet occepied, but repair work was still in progress.
Between 8 and 14 October, a total of 84 new soldiers arlived and were quartered
in the ESKK Kaserne. On 23 October, source determined that these soldiers had
been issued uniforms and thet they mere assigned to the two ground battalions.
They were not yet observed )n military duty. Ur 22 October, about 150 air force
soldiers arrived at the fieLd and were quartered in building Vo 14. kceerding
to Lieutenant Atamanov (fnu)1 the soldiers were to stay in this building only
three days. All the adjaceet rooms and buildings were locked to prevent thefts05
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6. On 9 October, source learned that the final examination of the
soldiers who attended a hech coarse was to be held in the presence
of a commission from ':.erder between 10 and 15 October. After the
examination, the soldiers wore to be assigned to work with German
Koch workers. (n 16 and 17 Ocbeher, most of the Keoh soldiers
loft by truck and were accompanied by the same officers who had trans?
ported then to laseberitz. From talks with these officers and? with
Lieutenant atamanov Cfnu)0 source learned that the sol,iers were taken
to erbendal, Jueterbog, Pathenca and ',order. The course was attended
by 360 mon including 112 soldiers of the units at Doeberitz airfield,
i.e. 40 soldiers of 1>n .leardov? Co soldiers of in I:azavituki and 12
soldiers of the technical unit in jouse Lo C6. 'Mose Koch soldiers
from the above mentioned units who remained in Doeberitz were detached
to the .iera n Kech workers for practical training on 21 ectoer.
some of them alleoedli cuaeleted this trainin-.; prior to 1 1:ovember.?
7. At 7:30 a.m. on 21 October, a siren on building 'fo 22 sounded an alert
for 10 minutes, The officers an. seldiers who were having their break?
fast at that time hurried into their billets. The pilot officers
wearing leather jackets and lelmett and carrying suitcases and map
cases went through the tunnel to the airfield. From 25 to 30soldiers
merino fur vests and helmets also reshed to the landing field. The
soldiers from buildings 20, 27, 2r, 22, 30 went to the field carrying
gas masks. They eeee armed with rifles.
GG At 7:37 a.a., while the sir .n etill sounded, the first aircraft enoines
were running at the fleld. :later vehic.!es hauled kitchen utensils,
tablea and chairs from the kitchen in house Lo 21 and foodstuff and
boilers from the houses 16 and 86b. At 706 nom., 7 to 8 tank trucks,
1 truck with the general 's car, 3 trucks with soldiers and 1 truck with
aircraft Darts 1, ft the yard of the barreez installation, 'which was
formerly occupied by the motor transport training unit) and moved to
highway ho 103. The vehicles stoped in froet of the 1:3KK Kaserne. A
total of about 25 truc;:s assembled there prier to 9a5 a.m. The soldiers
and Lussian women in the Uarrae;s ins-ellatica were equipped with gas
masks, an auxiliary aid station with eodical officers, 4 nurses, 10
soldiers and 1 ambulance was establimed west a building ho 06b. At
10:30 a.m., the siren sounded the end of the alcrt. Subsequently,
the officers and soldiers returned from the lend'no field, and the trucks
moved back and were unloaded.
9. olano took off during the alert, but the aircraft engines were warmed
up for 10 to 15 minutes. It is probable that no thee?offs wore made
because of the unfavorable weather. The clout:, base vas at an alttude
of 200 to 300 meters, and the visibility was limited to 500 meters, At
11:30 a.:1.1 marching and saluGinc, vele practiced at the athletic field
by 150 to 180 officers, including many pilots, and aboet 300 soldiers.
At 1 p.m., this activity was terminated by a march in review by all
officers and soldiers in front of the reviewing stand, burine the
alert, it was observed that 1 lieutenant colonel, 1 major, 3 captains and
1 officer, the latter wearing black?bordered epaulets, let the building
:;0 19 and hurried to ie/oldeletz. They orCoably belonged to the Ada.
unit which also participated in the alert.
10. At 9:30 a.m. on 13 ectober, 35 soldiers carrying suitcases marched from
the buildings 20, 17, and 29 to dindenburoplatz. They went re leave to
the Uol-sio.h. for six weeks.
11. At 6:h0 or '8 October, 50 new
and, subsequently, parked in
room: for the trucks, some Of
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trucks were unloaded at the loading ramp
the :arages in the TftAZ: laiserne. To ?.ake
the old vehicles were pa-el:0d in the opTno
loaded with gasoline drums and soldi-irs?
The soldiers drove ? ei:JIL of the ncw trus
to ..leroldsplatz.- On 23 October, the
ore still peeked in th
. renainin:712 new trucks
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12. On 10 October, six 37-nr, fJ uns were observed in the shrapnel-
proof aircraft revetments on the northern edce of the field. The
shrapnel-proof aircrat revotIvnts on the southern ed,.;e of the
field were occupied by four, )robaLly newly arrived, Guns of
76.2-nn or e5?rara callier. The .:.uns were stll observed mounted on
(;un carrias;es in the revet,ento on 23 October, Ldditional 37-mm
,;uns included 24 on the eastern edge of the field, 2 on the southern
edt:e? 4 on the western edte and 2 in the northwestern corner.7
13. i.bout 12 shrapnel-proof aircraft revetments were completed on the
northern ed:;(1 of the field by 2 October.
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a location sketch of Lho buildias in the norheastern
corner of the field which were most17 used .)y the technical unit,
some of the former f-A:.ages in these Luildinvs were converted into
offices, while the other ;ara,;es howit'.1 a repair shoo for enciness,
weldin:: shcp with 0 repair shop for oogines? a welding shop with
a rppair shop for radLators, an ordnanco shoo for aircraft weapons
and a storao room for wings, rudder assombly parts and enanes"
Louth of the :arages ;here was a newly erocted control wooden plat-
for-1 for f1147,ht purposes. Lurinrg air acti7ity it was occupied by an
officer who spoke into a microphone. J'zi bus without a motor and
usually four tank trucks were parked next to the control platform
durin!; air activity.
;A, 2:15 p.m. on 23 October, two V-type aircraft engines were being
unloaded from a truck- The erv:ines which wore not parked in crates
but only mounted on a trestle, 1,7:ere stored in the rachthofen Kaserne.
:etymon noon and 2 p.n. on 6 October, there was no air activity at the
field. Ground attack pianos wore parked on the nortern z--id eastern,
and southern edges of the field. 51-ne planes could not be clunted
because the entire area could not be observed.
10,, AA nuns of an estillated caliber of 37?rr: and with :un shields core
eiplaced on the southwestern edge of the field. J. tent was obsc-ved
next to the guns and beside the tent there was a mast with a line which
extended to the field, Two shelters covered oith beams were also
observed in the area of the gun emplacement, ulditional AA guns pro-
bably of the sumo caliber as those emplaced on the southwestern edge,
were observed in the northwestern corner of the field.?
19t Two radio installations on a lou elevation wore observed west of the
field. One installation consisted of a radio truck with a mast, about
12 motors high, at itE side. The other radio installation had four
braced masts with a wooden 3abin and a small mast in the center of the
square of nasts.1?
20. The field path toward Priort which extends at the field border along
Jeuistrassc, was blocked by a barrier. Therefore, the detour to .Oriort
had to be used. .hile going along Heerstrasse? source was halted by a
Soviet officer and a German speaking civilian, who probably also ';;as a
Luscian judging his accent. The lussians inquired for source's identity
card and the reason wi-L;v he was in this area.
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21. In the morning of 10 October, a train loaded with 50 to 60 new
trucks' 'arrived in ,Ustal. The trucks were hauled
to the field.
22. On ;) October, between ), and 6 p.m., there was no air activity a
the field. No preparations for flights were observed either.
After 2 p.c., on 20 October, it was hoard that aircraft flaw at
a distance. Jetween 2 and 5 p.m. on 27 Cctober, no air activity
woo observed. In the ntrninr;, about 40 TI.-10s, including 5 with
red propeller hubs Iwcre observed alonc: Hoer-
strasee. 02 these planes, 35 wore counted. Ln additional 20 I1-10s
were observed in front, of the closed hangars on the southern cdco
of the field.
23 On 9 and 27 October, six 37-mi:; AA guns were observed in the southwestern
corner of the field. An additional six 37-mo guns were emplaced near
the fuel dump. L'aeavating was io pro,;ross in the latter emplacelent
on 9 ,.ctober. Underground bunkers, the roofs of which were about in
line with the surface of the ground, existed in both er-,placements. ,
5coke one ed from two stove pipes in the southwestern emplacement,(
24. Four shrapnel-proof aircraft revetments were completed 50 to 60 =tors
southeast of the h4, ,-,un emplacements in the southwestern corner of
the field. The revetmento wore not occupied by aircraft?
A lowwooden building, 3 x 6 x 3 meters, ras built northwest of the
field, about 50 meters vest of the repair hangar. On 17 October, a
tot-ler was being erected at a corner of the wooden building. An area,
about 300 meters scuore, was being cleared in the small woods in the
northwestern corner of the field. In the middle of this square,
there were six sand ialls, about 20 meters long and 3 meters high, and
3 to 10 motors apart, The surface ef the ground between the, Tmlls
was about 1 meter deeper than the surrounding area0
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Comient? ioppc,nrade is about 4 1.muest of Doeberitz airfield.
The radio installation observed probably is the outer low frequency
approach beaapn.
2. Corarient,. The rrival of new trucks was observed
t is connected with the not .vehicle exchange pr oL:ram shich is in
progress among the units of the WM.
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Comment. Loeberitt airfield is occupied by two ground attack
regiments which are equioped with IL-10s.
commont The building numbers are keyed to c sketch previously
furnished. 1
uomment. Lieutenant Ltamanov (fnu) is the Yech .officer
le newtr arrived soldiers probably are recruits.
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Coment. The Eu3siane who are referred to as Yeah soldiers
to replace the G1TAP.31 workers employed in the barracks installa?
tion. 12)n Kardov and i3i Kazavitzki are the two :-;round units of the
ground attack regirent I I The techni?
cal unit is a repair unit for engines
.?;ot.irlent? The observation of a total .of x .37?mm AA guns
supports ea previous assumption that three .li.-.batteries of 37-am
J. guns are stationed at an airfield which .is occupied by -ground
attack planes. It rorains to be seen whether the IJ battery of
35?mm
or 76?mm AA guns is permanently stationed at the f ield . It
wras previously observed that AA L7,uno of this caliber are only stationed
at airfields which are occupied by bomber units.
For loua,tion sketch of A guns, see Imre x 1.
25X1 3. Gonnent, il'or location sketch of buildings in the northeastern-
corner os. the field., see Annex 2. float of these buildings are occupied
by the -repair unit.
? 25X1 9. 1-Pprlitiont, Ln AL?L.2 type 'engine is fitted in the IL-10 plane0
25X1 10. Garment. The radio installations obse:z.ved are a PKV?h5 DF sta?
tion and the low frequency landing approach beacon.
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Legend:
1. Thirty?five ,;araes: eastern portion" housing offices, other portions
used an storerooms for ;ins, parts of tail units and res= rve motors,
repair sLop for tail unitE and radiators, wolc in,; shoo, and ordnance
shop for aircr vtiarnis,
2. 'uarters for soldiers of fire departknt. mmunition for aircraft
weapons is stored in the ,:&rages and loaded in ammunition belts. -
a. Location of fire truck.
b. Location of water tank.
3. l'epair shop for jet enjnes.
h. Test stand.
5? ,archouse at loadin: ramp, not used-.
-Pi_; sty and do; Lonnel0
7. :Cormer offces of repair han,ar? destooecl.
Storeroom for crates.
9. ':oedon repair hanar; aircraft are spray?p:inted there.
Pote. The itomentf_oned above are drawn t,o sce, whlle the following items
are not to scale.
10. 2ormer air raid W-olter converted ilte con.a.. post and medivided
by
wooden walls. Telephone and radio antenna are available.
11. hewly erected weodez, platIP:1, used for )nLrol purposes, 2 meters
hi;.:1-1?,2.5 meters square, railin, 1,5 meters hi ;.t? without roof.
12. Isatenna between two masts; tank truclail usually our of them, are parked
behind the antenna.
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