AIRFILEDS AT PYZDRY AND CHOJNICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007500200009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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The airfield at Ohojnica (Mnigsberg in der Neumark - 053/Q40) is located
700 meters south of the town. It was originally built by the Germane durirg
the war , and has been in Soviet hands since the German retreat from this
area. Its area is 1.5 x 1.3 kilometers, with the longer side running east-
west, It is entirely surfaced with gravel, and is very hard. There are no
runways morked. Four hangars, in excellent condition, are along the east side
of the field near the Chojnica-Kostroyn (Mstrin) railway line. Other instella.
tions are a radio station, visual signalling station for day and night, wind
indicator, workshops, fuel and lubricants depot, administrative building, ard
sentry post, A specially built road leads from Chojnice to the airfield
2,. In mid-February there were forty-four two-piece fighter planes on the field,
in addition to four biplanes, known as liaison planes, and four larger aircraft,
Until the end of 1950 there were only about a dozen planes at the field, and a
small garrison of approximately 500 men. The garrison now consists of motorized
infantry and motorized artillery, as well as the aviation units. The latter are
quartered in the south part of the town, near the alanaeld,
3. The airfield at Predry (P53/774) is loceted 300 meters south of the railway
station at Zydowo, and midWay between the villages of rdeliniec and Gorazdowo
The ground in the vicinity is flat, open on all sides, drained, and fertile.
Built by the Germans during the war p it was used by the Soviets for a time
after the war and then abandoned. In the late summer of 1950 a group of 80
Polish engineers -rrived to undertake restoration of the field. By 18 December
there remained 24 men and one officer. The field had been newly levelled and
rolled, its bounderleemarked? and a wind direction indicator erected. There
ware no hangars or other buildings, and no indicetions that any would be constructcr14
No aircraft were on the field at that date
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