Audembert Airfield
| Aèrodrome de Audembert | |||
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| Distance from the city center | 15 km southwest of Calais | ||
| Street | today's D 238 | ||
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| opening | July 15, 1940 | ||
| closure | 1944 | ||
| operator | air force | ||
The Aèrodrome de Audembert , occasionally Aèrodrome de Wissant-Audembert , was a military airfield in France during World War II . It was located in what is now the Hauts-de-France region in the Pas-de-Calais department, mainly in the municipality of Audembert, about 1 km west of the center and partly in the area of Wissant .
It had a grass runway as well as paved taxiways and a few hangars.
history
The airfield probably existed before the war. During the Battle of Britain in 1940, this was the Air Force airfield closest to England .
From July to the beginning of December 1940 the Bf 109s of the staff and I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 26 (staff and I./JG 26) were stationed here. From mid-August 1940, Adolf Galland was the commodore of the squadron . The staff returned to Audembert again between June 1941 and June 1942, initially equipped with a Bf 109F and later with a Fw 190A .
In the further course of the war, the airfield served German ground troops from 1943, who arrived here with a view to the construction of the Atlantic Wall . Some bunkers were also built in the area of the airfield during this time.
After the liberation of the area by the Allies in the summer of 1944, the area was used for agriculture again. Some splitter boxes and a piece of runway still exist today.