Gryzliny Airport
| Gryzliny Airport | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EPGR | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 164 m (538 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 22 km southwest of Olsztyn | ||
| train | Allenstein - Hohenstein | ||
| Basic data | |||
| operator | District Office Olsztyn | ||
| surface | 130 ha | ||
| Runways | |||
| 12/30 | 800 m × 60 m grass | ||
| 03/21 (1945) | 900 m × 80 m concrete | ||
| 16/34 (1945) | 1200 m × 80 m concrete | ||
The Gryźliny airfield is an airfield near Gryźliny (formerly German: Grieslienen in East Prussia ). He was 1939-1945 as a military airfield Grieslienen an air base for the Air Force of the Armed Forces .
history
The air base was occupied for the first time in September 1939, when the attack on Poland began . A grassy area served as the runway. The few facilities were kept simple. There was only a hangar and a few workshops. From October 1941 to June 1942 the BFS 3 (blind flight school) was also located here. The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary associations) that were stationed here between 1939 and 1944.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 1939 | September 1939 | Is G. 1 (I. Group of Sturzkampfgeschwader 1) | Junkers Ju 87B |
| September 1939 | September 1939 | IV. (Stuka) / LG 1 (IV. (Stuka) group of training squadron 1) | Junkers Ju 87B |
| July 1943 | November 1943 | I./KG 77 (I. Gruppe des Kampfgeschwaders 77) | Junkers Ju 88A-4 |
| March 1944 | June 1944 | III./KG 3 | Heinkel He 111H-16 |
In the winter of 1945/1945 the area became the operational area of the Soviet 2nd Air Army and on January 21, 1945 it was occupied by units of the 1st Belarusian Front . Subsequently, the Grieslienen square served as a base for the Soviet air forces until shortly before the end of the war and was then abandoned.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early 1945 | 42nd Gw IAP (Guard Fighter Pilot Regiment) | Yakovlev Yak-9 | |
| March 1945 | April 1945 | 125th Gw BAP (Guard Bomb Pilot Regiment) | Petlyakov Pe-2 |
| March 1945 | April 1945 | 6th DBAP (Remote Bombing Regiment) | Tupolev Tu-2 |
Since 1945 the place has been called Gryźliny and is located in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The airfield has been in operation for sport aircraft again since 2003.
literature
- Stefan Büttner: Red places. Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994. Fliegerhorste – Aerodorme – Military fallow areas. Ed .: Lutz Freundt. AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , p. 12.
- Jürgen Zapf: Airfields of the Air Force 1934–1945 - and what was left of them. Lexicon of all airfields from A – Z. VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-054-2 , p. 162.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , p 236 , accessed on September 15, 2014.
- ↑ Gryźliny Airfield ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )