Roye-Amy Airfield
| Aerodrome de Roye-Amy | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
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| Distance from the city center | 1 km west of Amy | ||
| Street | D 154 D 160 | ||
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| opening | around 1939 | ||
| closure | 1969 | ||
| operator | Armée de l'Air (last) | ||
| Runways | |||
| 05/23 | 1700 m × 50 m concrete | ||
| 14/32 | 1250 m × 50 m concrete | ||
| 09/27 | 1822 m × 50 m concrete | ||
The Aérodrome de Roye-Amy was an airfield in France . It was located in what is now the Hauts-de-France region in the Oise department, essentially in the Amy area, about six kilometers south of Roye . During the Second World War it served as a military airfield .
history
Roye-Amy Airfield was built just before World War II. It had a few buildings and a hangar, but no paved runway.
After the war he served between late September and mid-October 1939, the British Royal Air Force as a base of with Blenheim - bombers equipped 57th Squadron . It also served the French air forces in April / May 1940 as a bomber base. There were three groups of bombers here, the "GB II / 34" with A 143 , "GB II / 54" with Br 693 and "GB I / 31" LéO 45 . The place was bombed by the German air force on May 18th during the western campaign of the German Wehrmacht .
This he used himself during the subsequent occupation of France, for which he received three concrete slopes, among other things. Between March and May 1941 here were the Ju 88A of the III. Group of Kampfgeschwaders 1 (III./KG1) and between March and May 1944 the Fw 190A of Group I of Schnellkampfgeschwader 10 (I./SKG 10).
After the liberation of the area by the Western Allies in the summer of 1944, Airfield A.73 , its Allied code name, became the base of the Ninth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in early September 1944 . The 370th Fighter Group with its P-38 was initially here for two weeks and the 391st Bombardment Group with its B-26 was added from the middle of the month . This remained until mid-April 1945 and then the C-47s of the 349th Troop Carrier Group were the last US aircraft stationed here. They left the airfield in July 1945.
After the war he was initially to serve in general aviation . In 1950, however, it was a candidate for a future NATO military airfield, but the terrain was not selected. However, it remained under the control of the air forces as a possible alternative point with its remaining east-west runway. When the military decided not to use it for aviation purposes, civilian use ended in 1969.