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Orly Field
Orly Air Base was a United States Air Force Facility during the early part of the Cold War, located at Aéroport de Paris-Orly, south of Paris, France. The American Air Base was located on the north side of the airport, in an area east of the current-day Val-de-Marne/Essonne. The facility was first developed as a military airfield by the Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I. With the end of the war, in 1920 it was eventually developed into a civil airport. After the 1940 Battle of France, the occupying German Luftwaffe seized the facility and used it as a military airfield. In 1944, the Germans were driven out and it subsequently became an Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) designated A-47 for the United States Army Air Forces Ninth Air Force. Rebuilt after the war as a joint civil/military airfield, the primary use of the base was to support Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) at Rocquencourt. Secondary functions were as a personn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Air Forces In Europe
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Advanced Landing Ground
Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) were temporary advance airfields constructed by the Allies during World War II during the liberation of Europe. They were built in the UK prior to the invasion and thereafter in northwest Europe from 6 June 1944 to V-E Day, 7 May 1945. Unlike the permanent airfields built in the United Kingdom and designed for the strategic bombardment of Germany, the tactical combat airfields on the continent were temporary, often improvised airfields to be used by the tactical air forces to support the advancing ground armies engaged on the battlefield. Once the front line moved out of range for the aircraft, the groups and squadrons moved up to newly built ALGs closer to the ground forces and left the ones in the rear for other support uses, or simply abandoned them. Overview When the Allies invaded Normandy on D-Day, Royal Air Force Airfield Construction Service engineers were among those in the initial assault waves. Their mission was to rapidly construc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Air Depot
Colombey-les-Belles Aerodrome, was a temporary World War I airfield in France used by the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force. It was located near Colombey-les-Belles, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Colombey-les-Belles Aerodrome was the location of the 1st Air Depot. It was the largest American facility in the combat zone of the Western Front and arguably, the most important, as the 1st Air Depot supplied and equipped every Air Service unit after their arrival at the front and entered combat. Overview The 1st Air Depot supported operations of 33 combat airfields and 44 squadrons of the Air Service on the Western Front, as well as 23 Balloon Observation companies. There were a total of 950 aircraft with those squadrons, and 566 at the 1st Air Depot. Of the front-line combat squadrons, 38 were fully equipped by the 1st Air Depot. The depot supplied airplanes, flying personnel, transport and drivers, munitions and armament, radio an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orly Aerodrome - Hangars
Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly, which gave its name to the airport. Population Transport Orly is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Les Saules and Orly-Ville. Education Schools in Orly:Etablissements scolaires " Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. * Preschools (''écoles maternelles''): Cité Jardins, , Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard, |
Orly Aerodrome - 1
Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly, which gave its name to the airport. Population Transport Orly is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Les Saules and Orly-Ville. Education Schools in Orly:Etablissements scolaires " Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. * Preschools (''écoles maternelles''): Cité Jardins, , Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard, |
Orly Aerodrome - Salmson 2A2 Inspection
Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly, which gave its name to the airport. Population Transport Orly is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Les Saules and Orly-Ville. Education Schools in Orly:Etablissements scolaires " Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. * Preschools (''écoles maternelles''): Cité Jardins, , Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard, |
Orly Aerodrome - Headquarters
Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly, which gave its name to the airport. Population Transport Orly is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Les Saules and Orly-Ville. Education Schools in Orly:Etablissements scolaires " Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. * Preschools (''écoles maternelles''): Cité Jardins, , Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard, |
Tours Aerodrome
Tours Aerodrome was a complex of military airfields in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, 6 km (3.2 NM) north-northeast of the city of Tours. They were used during World War I as part of the Second Air Instructional Center (2d AIC), American Expeditionary Forces for training United States airmen prior to being sent into combat. Today Tours Airdrome #1 airfield is Tours Val de Loire Airport (Base Aérienne 604). Background The airfield complex is located about three miles northwest of the city of Tours, Department of Indre-et-Loire, on the main road to Vendome.Series "J", Volume 7, History of the 1st, 2d, 4th, 7th and 8th Aviation Instruction Centers, Gorrell's History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917-1919, National Archives, Washington, D.C. via http://www.fold3.com Tours initially was established by the French Air Force, French Aeronautique Militaire as a training school for pilots prior to the United States entry into World War I. On 23 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orly Aerodrome - Site Map 2
Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly, which gave its name to the airport. Population Transport Orly is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Les Saules and Orly-Ville. Education Schools in Orly:Etablissements scolaires " Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. * Preschools (''écoles maternelles''): Cité Jardins, , Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard, |
Orly Aerodrome - Airfield Maps
Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly, which gave its name to the airport. Population Transport Orly is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Les Saules and Orly-Ville. Education Schools in Orly:Etablissements scolaires " Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. * Preschools (''écoles maternelles''): Cité Jardins, , Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard, |
Western Front (World War I)
The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during the First World War. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The German advance was halted with the Battle of the Marne. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France, which changed little except during early 1917 and in 1918. Between 1915 and 1917 there were several offensives along this front. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties during attacks and counter-attacks and no significant advances were made. Among the most costly of these offensives were the Battle of Verdun, in 1916, with a combined 700,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
