Saint-Jean-de-Daye Airfield

Saint-Jean-de-Daye Airfield Advanced Landing Ground A-18
Saint-Jean-de-Daye
Coordinates	49°13′04″N 001°09′11″W / 49.21778°N 1.15306°W / 49.21778; -1.15306 (A-18 Saint-Jean-de-Daye)
Type	Military Airfield
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
In use	2 August-9 September 1944
Battles/wars	Western Front (World War II)

Saint-Jean-de-Daye Airfield is a former World War II airfield, located 1.7 km southeast of Saint-Jean-de-Daye in the Normandy region, France.

History

Saint-Jean-de-Daye Airfield was located along the main road from the national 8 174 a little below St. Jean de Daye to D 900 long straight line leading to Périers start of Operation Cobra, the decisive battle, from 24 July 1944 to 30 July 1944, to pierce the front in the South of the Cotentin.

It was after this battle that the 843rd Engineer Battalion of the Air (843rd Engineer Battalion Airfield or EAB) began the works of construction of new airfield normally reserved for fighter-bombers in accordance with the specification provided for this type of field oriented southwest-northeast (62 °) in the territory of the municipality and not the Dézert St Jean de Daye which he took the name yet, certainly not for long, because if it was open to air traffic on August 29, he was returned to the French civil authorities on September 5 a week after it opened!

There was therefore no units of the 9th it was attached. Its activity, from the testimony of residents of that time, however, was intense throughout much of August, well before its official opening. Many transport aircraft and also frequented the civilian refugees housed in proximity also noticed movement "small aircraft" from it. It is likely that the speed with which Britain was released, allowing the use of many airfields rendered useless by the assignment to a combat unit called to follow more closely than TUSA from Normandy.

The exact location of the runway is still clearly visible today because it is the straightness of the road D 389 E 389 from D to its shift towards the town of Menil-Véneron

References

Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

External links

A-18 Saint-Jean-de-Daye (In French)

USAAF Ninth Air Force in World War II

Stations

Palestine (Mand)	Lydda Muqueibile Ramat David St Jean

Egypt	Abu Sueir Ismailia El Amiriya Daba Deversoir Fayid Kabrit * Landing Ground 174 Payne Sidi Haneish

Libya	Baheira Belandah Benina Castel Benito Berca Darragh El Adem El Assa Gambut Hamraiet Lete Martuba Tmed El Chel Tobruk Tripoli Sidi Azeiz

Tunisia	Ben Gardane Bou Grara Chekira Hani Hazbub Hergla El Djem El Haouaria Kairouan Medenine Menzel Heurr Sfax Soltane

United Kingdom	Aldermaston Andover Andrews Field Ashford Balderton Barkston Heath Beaulieu Birch Bisterne Boreham Bottesford Boxted Charmy Down Chalgrove Chilbolton Chipping Ongar Christchurch Cottesmore Earls Colne Exeter Folkingham Fulbeck Gosfield Great Dunmow Greenham Common Grove High Halden Headcorn Holmsley South Hurn Ibsley Kingsnorth Langar Lashenden Little Walden Lymington Matching Membury Merryfield Middle Wallop North Witham Ramsbury Raydon Rivenhall Saltby Scorton Staplehurst Spanhoe Stansted Stoney Cross Thruxton Upottery Warmwell Welford Weston Zoyland Wethersfield Winkton Woodchurch Wormingford

Europe	Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) in France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany too numerous.

Units

Commands

Wings

Bombardment	97th Bombardment 98th Bombardment 99th Bombardment

Fighter	8th Fighter 9th Fighter 70th Fighter 71st Fighter 84th Fighter 100th Fighter 303d Fighter

Troop carrier	50th Troop Carrier 52d Troop Carrier 53d Troop Carrier

Groups

Bombardment	12th Bombardment 98th Bombardment 322d Bombardment 323d Bombardment 340th Bombardment 344th Bombardment 376th Bombardment 386th Bombardment 387th Bombardment 391st Bombardment 394th Bombardment 397th Bombardment 409th Bombardment 410th Bombardment 416th Bombardment

Fighter	36th Fighter 48th Fighter 50th Fighter 57th Fighter 79th Fighter 324th Fighter 354th Fighter 358th Fighter 365th Fighter 362d Fighter 363d Fighter 366th Fighter 367th Fighter 368th Fighter 370th Fighter 371st Fighter 373d Fighter 404th Fighter 405th Fighter 406th Fighter 474th Fighter

Troop carrier	61st Troop Carrier 64th Troop Carrier 313th Troop Carrier 314th Troop Carrier 315th Troop Carrier 316th Troop Carrier 349th Troop Carrier 434th Troop Carrier 435th Troop Carrier 436th Troop Carrier 437th Troop Carrier 438th Troop Carrier 439th Troop Carrier 440th Troop Carrier 441st Troop Carrier 442d Troop Carrier IX Troop Carrier Pathfinder (Provisional)

Reconnaissance	10th Reconnaissance 67th Reconnaissance 69th Reconnaissance

Squadrons

Liaison	14th Liaison 47th Liaison

Night fighter	422d Night Fighter 425th Night Fighter

United States Army Air Forces

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