Lombron Military Air Base
| Lombron Airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
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| Distance from the city center | 20 km northeast of Le Mans |
| Street | D 97 , D 89 |
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| opening | 1944 |
| closure | 1944 |
| operator | USAAF |
| Start-and runway | |
| 12/30 | 1542 m × 37 m metal plates |
The military airfield Lombron is a former French airfield from the time of World War II , the one km south-southwest of La Chapelle-Saint-Remy in the Region Pays de la Loire in the department of Sarthe was.
history
Lombron Airfield was built between August 18 and September 3, 1944 by the 834th US Flight Engineer Battalion (IX Engineering Command) as an "Advanced Landing Ground" Airfield A.37 .
The airfield was planned as an emergency landing and refueling station for the Ninth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces , but was not used much. Only one unit was temporarily stationed here, the 405th Fighter Group equipped with P-47 . Even when the airfield was not yet completely finished, an advance guard of the group was already dispatched here, but the main part of the group remained essentially on Cretteville Airfield (A.14). The P-47 remained in Lambron until September 13, 1944, when the much better equipped air force airfield at Saint-Dizier-Robinson (A.64) became available. Lombron airfield had been cleared and put to agricultural use by the end of the month. These days there are no remaining signs of an airfield.
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- Lombron (A-37)
- Information on forgottenairfields.com
- Johnson, David C. (1988), US Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to VE Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.