SCHOENWALDE AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100830009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

EVALUATION-
DA E OF CON T NT.
DATE OBTAINED
D' FERENCES__..a.
ENCLOSURES (o. & TVPr)
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On l :may 1?r . a lic:utetxant of the flying person:zel returned
to 3choer aide airfield from furlough in Odessa. Ile said that he had seen his
or r commencer, Colonel Vereshchinski, and his wife,, * Officers of
25X1 C 'M ,re continually detached to instruction coursers, 25X1 C
25X1X
2? On 21 ::ay, single-engine ground attack aircraft practiced flying at the field after
Eight, aircraft of this type were parked next to the flight control builcUn.
' hey were covered with gray-peon tarpaulins r, The numbers 86., 87$, 889 and 90 were
c een on four of the planes,,
There was flying with si laengine ground attack planes on 29 Lay between 7:30
ar,:.:, at 3 p.m,, and on 30 =ay between ).art and 2 p.m,, It was observed that two
dif_i'erent badges were worn by soviet person ol., One badge was worn by pilots and
f lrzi ci.ans and the other bade was worn only by pilots, =, t?
,. On ,30 aye biplanes practiced flying between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m, of the next morning,
Flights wer are de by sirs le.engine .round attack aircraft on 2 June between 7:30
,.m,, and 11 am , and on 5 June between 7:3O a oxi, and 2 p, n, j here was flying with
~a %rz--er irte aircraft with double ruder asse.:~.bl i.es on 1 June betwo.:r1 7 a wraa and
2 on 4 June between 7 and 11 a.m., and on 6 Junes bet wen 6:30 aomr and 7 pa M,
c.; The white: nunbor: 7., 80 9,, 120 26 and 42 were se::n on six of the planes,
cz n 9 Ju e about 1 sirs,";~ c- on 1.1C round attack aircraft were narked in FL1ront of
~.iae9 haa.n`acars at the air4'7old, Three of the planes? with whit1.1
e '-nriberz; 01, 03!
and Ot. on their fusel-7-fns., made local flights between 1 and 2 prt? in good
wea htr, 1 places had blue rudder a sr3ei fo ies without special m ar.',.i '! ;s e Plane
04 had a phi to propellor hubs -''tc: radio irl.Itellation with four r.;asts,, which
was pr vicy,t.;1z* I ocatcc' southwest of V IC field. ~, was not set u~~ a,: sin
25X1A 25X1C
o ._lento the 710th nds ^A fegt in Schoerrtalde,,
..Lw has n~t con titer ined who was the successor of Colonel Vereshchinski? the
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the firat i nforr tion that this badCe can be also obtained
x1= tec!r-iical p rbonnela or sketch of bade word only by pilots., seo
a ?:~ :a the badge is dram to actta1 sized
25X1AI-iHi~ Co ment,> #1 twin- n ~rze aircraft are probably PE-2s or Tt 2s which
A r . n o ~e air reconnaissance regirlc at, stationed at :"choci sal e airfield,
Des-ides this regime at j, the 710th ,^]d 'zA Re ;t is also stationed tti re
l Ln.nex 1 .A one sketch on ditto,,
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