AIRFIELD INSTALLATIONS AT PEENEMUENDE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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two air
force battalions, assigned to unidentified fighter units, were stationed in
Peenermuende, () the first battalion was located in
7ittstock, while the second and third battalions of the regiment were located
in Peenemuende.(5)
The third battalion was called "large battalion" because of
its difference from the second battalion,. It w .s equipped with tractors
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namely a German Vomag frith pneumatic tires, three or four Stalin tractors,,
and two light Russian tractors with chain drive. Senior Lieutenant 13urkovslki
and Lieutenant Shushpanov were assigned to this battalion.
~3. Trucks of the third battalion w ore repaired in
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stationed in Pecnemuende, (6)
9. On 18 January 1951,, a total of 150 gondola cars and bm:car was seen pared
in the area north of Iiarisha; on (N55/P92) , The third battalion with all'
its rsonnel, dependents, and equipment, including household goods,, entrained
on land 19 Janua 1951. The entire battalion had left by 22 January except
for four trucks,
the third battalion Was transferred to tVittstock, (7)
The second battalion remained in Pecnemuende
10, The settlement evacuated by the third battalion was to be reoccupied by depen.
dents of naval police personnel from Zinnot^ritz (N55/L02), fIeringsdorf N5L L2l),
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small billets with a capacity of three or four nav police were being built
in the town of Pee nomuo de ,
11, Fuel was stored at the motor pool and the airfield, The third battalion iras
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two large tanks,, each about 10 peters long and about three meters
in diameter. In addition to those there were several small tanks filled with
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the battalion was transferred. (9) The fuel for jet aircraft of the second
and third battalions -was carried by eight tank trucks, iThich had a capacit
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used by jet fig.,hters ?~ry s as clear as-
water when it was tapped. J When collected
in a bottle, however, it had a yellow tint, Its smef resembled that of a
mixture of benzole and kerosene.
12. The fire brigade at the installation was billeted in the garage south of the
motor pool. It was equipped with three three-ton trucks with mounted water
tanks and one two-cylinder 1)1W motor fire engine. Two two-wheeled foam exten-
guishers'.ith a content of 200 liters each were also seen in the garage,
After the third battalion had left the field only one fire extinguisher remained.
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139 Tyro radio trucks, which vere fitted with antenna rods, left the motor pool
occasionally to practice. A large radio truck with a high and braced radio
mast was seen only once, south of the officers' billets,, in October 1950,
Neither stationary radio installations, radar sets with dipoles, nor radar
sets with ranrx finders were seen at the southern section of the installation.
14, Neither AAA soldiers nor AAA emplacements were seen in the southern section
of the installation. No bomb dumps were observed. Stick bombing was heard
frequently, presumably from a bombing range located on the mainland in the
direction of Croeslin (N55/P93). The bombers were not stationed in Peenemuende.
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Once, in the sumrmer of l ^v, a loud hissing sowna was heax~3 over Zinnowitz ~'
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the German V wapons plant in Peenemuende was
destroyed partly by enemy bombing and by German demolition work,
16. No roclst noises were heard in Peenemuende on 7 January 1951. On 18 and 19
January demci.tion work gran carried on in the northern section of the instal-
lation. Explosions were heard about 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the two days;
three explosions wore heard at 5 p.m. on 18 January. Three clouds of smoke
were seen mushrooming up over the woods about three In northwest of the
loading ramp.
17. Uniform:
Soviet Air Force officers irore olive drab shirts with fixed collars and a
black tie. ELI and , junior officers wore blue piping and field officers wore
gold piping on their caps. Field officers also had gold braid on the visors
of their caps. The following other uniform features were observed:
a. Flight personnel: Light blue collar patches bordered by piping of a
light blue. The epaulets of officers wore marlmd by light blue longi-
tudinal stripes. All air force members had cockades on their caps; those
of the flying personnel were crossed by a propeller.
b. Ground personnel: Light blue collar patches same as flight personnel,
but with black piping. Special arms insignia were not worn with the
cockades, Russian soldiers had to remove the arms
insignia from their uniforms Chile stationed in Germany.
c, Medical personnel: Silver epaulets, in contrast to all other officers,
including engineers and paymasters, who wore golden epaulets.
d. Signal canmunications troops: Arms insignia of signal conmiuni.cati ons
troops, such as crossed bolts of lightning, were not observed in Poenemuende.
e. Miscellaneous insignia;. Some officers more a golden or silver clasp on
their right breast. In the center of the clasp was a propeller. A-few
officers and Ell also more a parachute badge in 'white or blue enamel.
f. linter clothing: in the winter of 1950/51 the flying personnel wore
captured Japanese clothing, consist.'ng of olive-drab trousers lined with
artificial fur and a blouse of the same material fitted with a hood and
zipper.
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Ctm ments:
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been boil .
credible.
(2) The Peenemuende airfield reconstructed in 1949.
(3) The exact number of jet aircraft stationed in Poonemuende is unknown. During
the reporting period two fighter regiments were stationed in Poenemuendeq
one of which has been transferred.to VIittstock.
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Presumably B#Os, assigned one each to the fighter regiments,
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