RUSSIAN AIRFIELDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000690011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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DIST'. ` ' November 1947
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1. Arvs (Orzysz, A66)
Between May and August 1947, the former German troop training ground
at Arys was occupied by airborne units in approximate strength of
two brigades. They were equipped with infantry weapons and smoke
shell mortars. During field maneuvers, two types of gliders were
employed, each accommodating forty to sixty men with full equipment,
Landings were practised in all kinds of weather and there was some
25X1A6a emphasis on early morning landings.
Comment: The last report on Arys received by the originating
office stated that artillery units were in training during December
1946.)
2 RanPsdorf (Z82)
No air activity has been observed at Rangsdorf since mid-August. No
new Soviet Air Force trainees have arrived. Dismantling operations25X1X6
^' .A^ have started on a few barracks and temporary buildings.,
parently nothing to do with a fuel shortage, since tanks and reserve
dumps are kept filled.)
uesi%~ex- 1 ur severai moni,ns -> approximately ! ,VUV students attending
ten to fourteen week courses - very little air activity.has been
seen there since June. This cessation of flying, he adds, has app
3. Schbnwalde (a66)
This field, built between 1935-1937 and used as a GAF basic training
ground, has approximately 110 buildings, all of which were occupied
by the Russians in early September.. Air activity has increased.
Double road blocks have been set up on adjacent roads snd all through
traffic halted. A few former German Lufthansa pilots, recently return-
ed fr-,~n Russia, are acting as alight instructors.
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4. Fttrstenwalde (u33)
Used up to the present as a scrap metal collection point, this
field is now being repaired.
5? Men aged 18 to 60 in Saxony-Anhalt, drafted for labor, were scheduled
to leave during the first two weeks of September for the Oder-W,Iarthe
area, where they were to repair airfields (unidentified) for a
period of six to eight weeks.
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