Colleville-sur-Mer Airfield

Colleville-sur-Mer Airfield
Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) A-12
Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France
Colleville-sur-Mer Airfield
Coordinates 49°20′18″N 000°50′08″W / 49.33833°N 0.83556°W / 49.33833; -0.83556 (A-22 Colleville-sur-Mer)
Type Military airfield
Site information
Controlled by United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built by IX Engineering Command
In use June–August 1944
Materials Compressed Earth
Battles/wars Western Front (World War II)
  Northern France Campaign

Colleville-sur-Mer is an abandoned World War II military airfield, which is located near the commune of Carentan in the Basse-Normandie region of northern France.

Located just outside La Fontaine, the United States Army Air Forces established a temporary airfield shortly after D-Day on 8 June 1944, shortly after the Allied landings in France The airfield was one of the first established in the liberated area of Normandy, being constructed by the IX Engineering Command, 832d Engineer Aviation Battalion.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

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