ULLA HIGHWAY BRIDGE/ULLA AIRPORT/KAMEN SOKOROWO ROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000400700004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. L1fhe middle span of the Ulla three, span bridge was destroyed
in 1 ,,441 The +. n -ivy ,m a x emr-i yed the !'err , 'Bet;'niet +~ N in L!n , Ruotria,
tT~. hundre1'. I.rE~ ?~11^?:ri , to five hundred ?3ovie a prisoners ww,r t^ rebuild the
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time the ; y r e to0^k the bridge. i nt1ac-..
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4. Each span was laid so that one end of each span was fixed and the other end
was movable on rollers., to allow for expansion. Each span consisted of heavy
"I" beams from pier to pier., covered with four-inch by six-inch section planks
bolted to the "I" beam flange. The bridge was 13 ft wide, with eight feet for
--Vehicles and two and a half feet. on each side for pedestrian traffic.
Although the bridge capacity was 24+ tons., German "Tiger" tanks, weighing 70
tons, crossed the bridge in September 1943.
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'Ulla Airport
Immediately south of the bridge and river was the Ulla airport. In August and
September 1943, the German Air Force operated one and two engine aircraft from
this field almost continually. The field was laid out as follows:
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massacred by the Red Army.
imprisoned in the military housing shown, before being taken to Katyn and
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-Kamen-Sokorowo Road
A German map, Ubersichtskarte von Mitteleuropa, scale 1:300,000, Sonderausgabe
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out.ofiKamen were each about 12 feet wide, constructed in the same manner 50X1
e. g way from Kamen to Botscheikowo sic . It`was constructed about 1930 of
Six- to seven-inch diameter eggstone, with about four inches of sand underneath.
It.was a well drained allweather road about 10 feet wide. The other two highways
vne:uerman Army was badly overloading the roads.
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