Immola Airfield is an
airfield
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in
Imatra
Imatra is a town and municipality in southeastern Finland. Imatra is dominated by Lake Saimaa, the Vuoksi River and the border with Russia. On the other side of the border, away from the centre of Imatra, lies the Russian town of Svetogorsk. ...
,
Finland
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about northeast of Imatrankoski, the centre of Imatra.
History
Planning of the airfield began in 1933, and the airfield was opened in 1936. Before and during the
Second World War
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, the airfield served as a base of the
Finnish Air Force
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. The German leader (
Führer
( ; , spelled or ''Fuhrer'' when the umlaut is not available) is a German word meaning "leader" or " guide". As a political title, it is strongly associated with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Nazi Germany cultivated the ("leader princip ...
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
visited Immola on June 4, 1942 to congratulate
C. G. E. Mannerheim, the Marshal of Finland, on his 75th birthday. In the summer of 1944, the
Detachment Kuhlmey operated mainly from Immola.
See also
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List of airports in Finland
Below is a list of airports, airfields and heliports in Finland, grouped by type and sorted by location.
Airports
ICAO location identifiers link to pages from the Finnish Aeronautical Information Service.
Names shown in bold indicate airp ...
References
External links
VFR Suomi/Finland – Immola AirfieldLentopaikat.net – Immola Airfield
Airports in Finland
Airfield
An aerodrome ( Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for pub ...
Buildings and structures in South Karelia
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