I. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON POLISH AIRFIELDS

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1. Miaoellaneoue xnforration ou Polish ~irfie1de
Ustka
More thou 30 Soviet airoraft are at present at the Ustka field.
There ie also one Polish Dakota there.
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Rats have been undertaken at the 3eoeecin-1 b
The following work prod
field i
repair and equipping of hangars
oonetruotion of a runway.
fpn engineer from Versaw ie to direct the protects.
Breed
1, General locations The center of the Breeg airfield is 4 kilonetere
uthwest of the center of the town of Braeg. The field is on the eaetern Li.7
so
the road between Brseg and arodkow, within the quadrilateral
aide of
formed by iht1Iri FF this road (on the scat), the third?claee road
between the villages of Balujowioe and Pepioe(on the south and eoutheaet),
? Streelin railroad (on the west), and the third-aleee road s
the Breeg
linking with the state highway between
I~lujawioe and Skarbimiere ~
Breeg and arodkow (on the north). It ie eet in between the v111_*gae of
Malujowioe, 1000 meters to the went, SkarbimierZ, on ite northern edge,
nd Pepiae, 840 metere to the south. (see German Army" Map, 1/300,000,
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Edition No. 2, 1941, Sheet P. 51 - Oppein).
2. Boundaries of the field:
Bern bounda i road linking Malujowioe with SkarbiraierZ and
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farther to the north the the Brseg - Strwelin railroad, whioh joine
the Wroolaw - Brzed line.
lectern boundaryt Breeg - Orodkow road,
5outheaetern boundaryt Village of Pepioe.
and western boundary: third-olaee (dirt) road linking
Southern
Balujowioe and Pepice (eee eketoh).
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3. Obstacles
a, Distant obataolee
lb To the north, 400 meters from the field, there is a
high tension line (height, 3.0 meters) running from a,Lawls (see sketch).
southern
2. To the northeast, a park at the/edge of Drug, which starts
at the Wroclaw p Arseg railroad grid 'inns to about 150 peters from the
field (trees 7 meters tall).
3. To the east, at 1500 meters, houses in the village of
Ziobxsna and a row of trees (height six meters) at about 1000 meters.
1,. To the south, a row of trees 100 meters array (height
6 meters) (see nketoh).
5. To the southeast, houses in the village of Aepioe (height
10 to 15 meters),
6. To the southwest, a few scattered +.rees (height 7 to 8
meters), 300 meters from the field,
7. To the northwest, houses iri the village of kalujowice,
located 1000 metero away (height 10 to 15 meters).
b. Nearby obstacles
1. To the north a row of hangars and destroyed buildings,
as well as a row of trees oumouflaging them (height of buildings and
hangars 10 to 15 meters; height of trees 12 meters),
2. To the east: firing range (see sketch) the two ends of
whiob, on the northeast and southwest, are bordered by two buildings
(height 8 meters), A former camp, now demolished, only walls and ohim-
nays remaining, plus a few trees (height of chimneys 6 to 7 meters ;
height of trees 5 to 8 meters) ( see sketch).
3. To the southeast: earthen shelters for aircraft (height
2.5 ioc cmetere) and small hillooks, near the road leading to the field
(height 2.5 to 3 meters) (see sketch).
4. To the southi several earthen shelters for aircraft
(height 2.5 meters) and skeletons of destroyed aircraft (see sketch).
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5. To the westt olear.
4. Aiaoension$ of the fields 1500 netere eaet?weet, 1000 meters
north- south.
5. Ni-ture of field and runways
a. Field has an argillaoeoue base covered with a fine layer of
gravel. A drainga installation, risible the soutb of the field,
A2 ie in good condition, height 15 meters, *idtb 50 met Gre, length 30 meters
H3 P M a n " 10 " " a " 25
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makes it .iz v.toeable the year round.
b. 1. One main takeoff runway, onnorete, running east-west,
700 uteri in length and 50 meters in width, starting from the western
ilix end of the field (see sketoh).
drive,
2. One semi?oiroular ~pgllOgt, oonorete, z~** running from
the Hrseg Pepioe road to the hangars (see eketoh).
3. One email concrete runway linking the hangars with the
main landing runway, oriented north eouth (cee eketoh).
4. A oonorete road resembling a runway, linking the airfield
with the wroolaw M Katowioe highway (11 kilometers dietent). This road
joins the eemi-oiroular drive on a level with the village of Pepioe
(see eketoh).
There are several patohes of brush on the field (sea eketoh) con-
dieting of willow ahrube (height 1.5 metere).
6. General direction of windes west - giant (from the went)
'7. Buildings:
a. Hangars (see sketoh; hangars are indicated by a, workshops by
A, barraoka by E. ) All are located at the northern end of the field.
H1 in destroyed, only walls remaining (height 8 metere)
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b. Workshops.
Repair workshop and waxrehouae for parts. Dimension s height
6 meters, width 10 meters, length '70 metes.
o. 8arruoke and buildings
Dl - group of pc-rtly destroyed barmoka, oou* wa31u atilt in good condition
B2 . three houses, partly demoliabed, height 20 met4ers, widtb 20 rsetere,
length 60 metere
destroyed
B3 w two/buildinga and several inhabited barracks.
8. Radio oniometrio and meteorological inatallationa
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a. Meteorological atetion near hangar H8 (see sketch)
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b. Radio truck ie atationed it the ooutheaetern part of the field
near the Brseg Grodnow road, not far from the former German oaarp, whioh
has been destroyed.
9. Night beacons
metalled at the eastern end of the concrete lsnding runway, consisting
of about 10 lights (see sketch).
10. Roads leading to the airfield
a. Froji the norths third~olasa road leading from the main Brse~ .
Grodkow road at linking Skarbimiere with the field and with the village
of Malu jowice. Entrance El on a level with buildings B3 and the mein
entrance Fl opposite hanger H8 correapond to this road, which is in good
condition.
b. From the east a dirt road in good condition whioh oonneota
the hangars and the Braeg . Grodkow road (see sketch} . This road, whioh
has neither shoulders nor ditches, crosses the field from northiset to
rsoutheaat.
o. From the southeaetsM a oonorete driveway running from the high-
way and 3oinin the concrete semi-circular driver~ey near the visage of
Pepioe.
d. From the eouthds a dirt road crosses the field and ends at the
eemioiroul*r d*tveway.
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3,1. Unloadlug reap
To the northwest a mingle rail line, about 800 n eterr long, brenohes
oil' trom the tin line between Braeg and strselin and rues to gangara R2
and 113, where there to a ramp (see ekotoh).
32, Possibility of oxpanuion to the east
&t of the Bxieg M 4rodkow road, betwoen the villago~ of Pepioe
in the south and the destroyed former onmp in the north, the Osrains
was to
intended to rntike a landing runwuy whit be joined to tb. 1*rgw
oonorete runway already existing. Drctinnge dite1,ee tiad already teen
dug in the ocnatruotion t rea. Trim vwmi y was to have hoen extended to
a ema11 wood located about 1E00 meters aoutheaot of the field.
eastern
In this inooiupleted/aeotion there nre earthen shelters for aircraft.
The project was abandoned in 194.
13. Utilization and preaent occupation of the baae
The Braeg air baae io at preaent utilized by the Soviet air oorpe.
a. Materiel: On 2 February 1949 there were 60 YAK 3 fi~bdere, 60
trainer
TAI 9 fighters, about 20 1 2 (3) light bombers, and 10/biplanes stationed
at the field.
b. Men
1. At the baae: the garrison oonniete of only 50 offioera
and about 250 men, because of the deatruotion of the huildinga.
2. In the town of Brseg: three kilometers away, in the block
of barracks eornprieing 18 buildings, located on Zyromekiego ~itroet, there
are Ito 4500 men and 200 officers belonging to the air force.
Opposite the barraoke there is an important air ? oomroand4 pad',
large residence (see report 241.727).
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About fifty/officere are quartered in individual billets elsewhere
in the town.
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Op 14 February 1949 there were 42 !9 a at this field, eeven of
whiob were oocaplotely- new, had never been used. Thor belong to the
First Polish figbtCr Negia%Gnt.
The field has no haara,
Opole ? Aalaka NJ
he Opole ? Polelut Nowawies airfield in located 11 kilometore south-
west of the center of the ton of Opolc+, thin a quadrilateral foreedby
1, a-'he Opole M Kotnpraohoioe M Polska ilowawiea?YlaweIao roc,d on
the northew4t.
2. The wuw4no r Niemodlin rnc~d on the north,
3. The VIroolc~w M Kutowice highway (under oonatruotion) on the eouth-
weet.
b. The Opole - Nyau railroad sine on the south and eoutheaet,
It i? in a forest oleering immedintely to the eouthweet of the vii-
lage of Polska Nowuwieo. The clearing ie oroesed by a dirt road linking
Polska Nowawiee with the highway. The venter of the field is 1200 etere
south oouthweet of the village of Nowawiee (eee German Army Nap, Iamue No. 2,
1911, Sheet 51, 1/300,000 ? Oppein),
Boundaries
The field is bounded on the north by the boueer and gardene of the
town of Nowawiee and by the Nowawies - WaWelno road f on the south by a
pine forest (Forst Tillou.te), through which rune the Opole M Nyea railroad;
on the east by the forest and a dirt road running south from Noaawiee;
on the Meat by the foreet and a em!+11 road linking Nowcwiee with the
highway. Thin road, whioh has no ehouldere or ditohea, rune aoroes the
field.
Obetnolee
A. Dietant obstacles
The region around Opole is level and open except in the area to the
south of the field, which is wooded and elightly rolling; but these hills
are of negligible height so far as flying ie oanoerned.
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B. Nearby obataolea
1. To the north there are gardens (fruit tree.) and houses
in the vil,uge of Nowuwies (Height five to alx znetera)
2. To the south there is the pins Threat, at the edge of
which the luingt&re and buildings are located (height 15 to 18 meters).
3. To the east is the pine forest with thts i rill clearing.
(height eight hater Q) .
14. To the eouthweut and west id to pine forest (height eight
meters), then open terrain us ft~r as the Nowawies *. wfe1no road.
Dimensions
The fisid extonds 1000 meteru north-south and 3000 meters east' west.
Nature of Yield and Runway
impermeable,
The field has an/ergillaoeou. base, covered with a fairly think
layer of coarse gravel. A drainage inet~tllution atikes it serviceable
the yoar round for fighters and oonobat airoraf't.
Direction of Prevailing Wind
West east (winds come from the nest or sometimes southwest).
Buildings
1. Three large hangars in perfect condition at the southern end of
the field (see sketch, ill, H2, H3).
2. Behind these hangars there are 10 i wooden camp barracks able
to house 1000 men (net sketch, BO 1 to BO 10).
3. At the soutbeietern and southwestern oorner? of he field there
are two two~etory brick buildings (see sketch, Bl and B2). Building B1
is used as a workshop, butiding B 2 as an offioera' billet and mess.
14. At the southern edge, bar the forest, there are two warehouses
(see aketoh, BM 1 and 8M 2).
itadio, goniometric, and meteorological stations
There is a former meteorological station to the eouih, between
hangar. H2 and H3 (see sketoh).
Night Beacons
None.
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Roads Littdinj to the Field
1. To the north, the Opole M Nowawies Niemodlin road, in good
condition. A dart rcuid, in very good oondition, which rune at right
angles to this road ,. 1.v 1 with the ahuroh in Nuwawiae, leads to the
base. (gee eketoh).
2, To the west, a amtU road in good condition eroeues the field
conneote
from north to nouth and t the Opole - Niesodlin road with the highway.
(bee eketoh) . 1t could be used for aoaean to thQ field.
Unloading Rnrp
In the freight terminal in Kompx'aebcice, about three kilometere east
of the field.
Utilization at' the Field
During the war the Opole ? Nowawiee airfield waa a fighter bane.
Since the German oo.pitulation the field ie used on]~r lac by the
Soviet air corps, not by the Poli eh air corpse.
Reoor ditionirng of the field (removal of vegetation) could be effeoted
very quioklpj the hangars crud barrack. are oervioeable.
Dobropole
'Airfield
Sketohi
Dobropole, 1700 cetera
Hangara
Field
Radio station
l5oo metere
Tanks, about
20 tone capacity
Forest
700 meters
any 1000 Runway
metere
Field
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Aohropole Airfield
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Detail. Oono.rniu the Field
Qseral locations 25 kiloaeter. northeast of Stargerd.
Coordinate. s 150 20 l ?t it, 53? 31' north.
Point to which ooordinatee refers Kangere.
Onrtogrophio references US Ar*y, 1/250,000, Sbeet 0 54?
Oooupation of Fields Eight JU 52'., six twin engine bomber., 12
fighter. (all Soviet).
Xluozewo or 3 ~ai'gard Jtirt'ield
Sketoh s
Radio Ht ngars
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Field
950
aetere
Hangar Darraoke
Radio
etotion
Kiel dump
Kluozewo
station
Coordinetse s 3J O 59 $ east, 53? 18' north.
Point to which coordinate. refers center of the run ay.
Cartographic references US Arty, 1/250,000, Sheet 0 5L.
Soviet.
Occupation of field: 19 twin?engine/bombere.
Conneots with
itr~rgard ? Pyrsyoe
NM 800 meters
distant
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The h*gax w1 iob was undex{ conetruotion at this field has been completed.
Situation unohanged eo far tie oooupetion le oonoenn,d (Polieb tighter
ult. Rep.ire to the hangare have been completed. There are n ow two
hangars in rerfeot condition, not inoluding worlcohope.
The field, looutod to the t,uzthweat of the town (5? ii north 18? 33'
o.~at)~ is oooupied by 2k oviut aircruft (eingle?engine, ant twin-rudder).
Thie field },uu an oxoellert concx'cto runway about 1000 meters in
lengthuh&ped r ii w and runner approximate],3r northwest w southeast.
South of the runway, near the hangars, there is an S-shaped concrete
parking area. The h ere appear to be destroyed. About two kilometers
eoutbeaot of the field there is a smell hangar for dirigibles eerved by
a branch roil line.
III Air Qarrieon at Drug
Since eunnnner of 1948 the air garrieon at Braeg hae received oonaid"
ertble reinforcemente, end following their arrival new aircraft have
arrived at the air bade. The preeenoe of an air command poet in the
town and the number of fighters and light bothere at the field ;about
120 IAK 3 and lAK 9 fighters and about 20 light bombers) leads one to
euppeee that the air unit etationed at Braeg oorreeponde at leaet to
a tighter dividion.
1. In the large block of barraoke on Zeromekiego Street (18 three'
etory buildings 80 by 20 meters) are boueed 4000 to 4~OO men and 200
offioere belonging to the air forces. Thee. barraoke bear the ineorip-
tion x?6 Q" . There are a number of trucks in the oourt of there bar-
reoksj some of the lioenee numbers were noted, ae 'tollowea
052998,0514192,054194,05 96.
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2. O Oberski Street, whiob bordera this blook of barracks on the
weat, ~aoroee the etreet nd alaost direot~r oppooite the barraoks~ there
is fi large residenoe used as an air coinrnu d post. There ere a number of
higher-ranking air offioexr, ino1uc9ing the oonw r4ez of the air base, a
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:3. Another rgaidenoe Just to the south of the^ preYiou$]~- mentioned
one is oooupied by offioes of the air command pout. Sewere1 higher
ranking air offioaru a ra gloo cyuArtcrod there.
4. At uouthern edge of the town, near the 8rneg-Orod1Caro road,
there ie an air foroa radio station. Th?rc is an ?ntenna toner eegen
metere high on top of to building. In front of the building there is
a radio trailer.
Neer this radio station, on the sgme side of the same etreet, there
is an air forces garage with a emaU repair workshop.
Altogether, in to two buildings, there are about ten officers and
thirty men.
5. There are a few air personnel, about 100 officers and men, in the
block of barraoke on '?olnosoi Street, r~biob uer is oocup.ed by the artil"
lery.
6. A few air off ioers,rX xI about thirty, are quartered
with their families x in two buildings on Robotelesa Street, aoroea from
tie artillery coed poet.
Conolusiones Of the 10,000 man ,end 1000 to 1200 offiaera in the
Braeg garrieon, 4500 men and more than four hundred offieere belong to
the air f oroee.
xlx. Ao*tvity of the Air Line
With the intention of informing the large working masses concerning
all the aepeote of aviation in peaoetime eerrioe, the aAir Line it organ-
ising throughout Poland 200 courses dealing eo1e1y with aviation.
theoretical courses will cover the following subjeotes
These
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History of aviution, aviation throughout the world, Polish aviation,
airoxutt euginor, uadol airoraft, g1idez' flyiti, p~&rao) utiag, flight
oa sty etc. Tout people, workers in iriatitutiona,~~ rub1io euvioe
and~faotoriew, and ue bexa- ox' the League will treks ti ~e ou a'aee.
1 first ovux'~ne of this wort stax ttd a few days rtgo In ~9taraaw, The
otrherr, orgtXniaed throughout r'olwid, will be under way befote the first
this
of M %rob of ~grxlr yeur and will 1&-at until the- end of May. In the diem
triote of Wrool,uw ar~d M Nzauzow ~6 and 1t3 oouratra, regpeotively, guys
been orQanizvd j Ua~us atw t1,u tta't~ia w'heio the Air Line ie ounoentrruting
th. greateut unouut of c+otivity.
Iv. Organisation of the Polish Naval Air Foroe
The Polish Naval Air Force in prooesa of formation oan for the moM
,k.( ,~ .
meot not be .aMdered ao anyt1i ng more than an experiment. It it etill
in a etage of groping, with reapeot to both pereonnel and materiel.
Whatever the final organisation of this branch ay be, it ie at pres-
ent completely under the direct eupervieion of Admiral 9teyer (Chief of
Staff of the Navy).
It will probably be used purely' and oirrtply for the defence of the
coat.