BRESLAU-LANGENAU AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010900180004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Det :o:a 4 ar. 6 pore on 16 August .1251, . source observed the airfield south of
I ngonau f:P 52/C S2)., :.:ost of the l0*7 wooden buildings which had been built north
of the .field S for to 1945 were destroyed by fire, The landing field had a grass
cover and n; Ih ardriuxrface r u~l,raya r 'To underground fool containers, night landing;
fac illiti radio installation or t cathor : tation were available., '"he ap-proa cIi
roads to -he field aid to the training area located north and iio t of the landing
fief: crer~. 'blocked by barriers? '-,)oz of the houses of L.,angonau and Gross Tiaake
(P !)2/ C >2) were destroyed.,
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Raake wero . acetod by the civilian population in February and Larch 1910, `i.'he
des truvtion in the villages had allegedly not occurred during t1 ,7ar but as a
result of firing practice with live araxunition conducted by Polish artillery,
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in a buildLn north of the field: the flight instructors daily returned to
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are aa; d to land at the field in favorable weeathera 1 -1
single. -engine fighters of the Polish Air korce unit from Breslau-Schoengarten
(P 52A;'31") airfield practiced firing at sleeve tar gets at Lan ;e:iau airfield and
the ti aceat training area. Allegedly no flights with gliders were seen over the
airfield s being
used by student pilots of the Polish pilot school in BBreslau--
Oanctaup # he aircraft are supplied with fuel by a tank truck froaa Th eslau-Garndau.
Darin, flying activity, about 200 pilot students allegedly practice taste-offs and
.aridi ir 3., About 16 two-seater biplanes with fixed . landin;z ears and radial 'rune
C o i lnto Dreslau*.Langeriau airfield is being used as a trailing field by he
tic Rationed at i,roslau-Gandau airfield. This is probable because
Br e31at; ayhdau airfield is located on the pori ter of ;fieslau and., therefore, 17oulr
be unsuitable for prirry pilot training? It is also believed credible that the
trop training grounds in the surroundings of eslau-Lan enau are used for firing
p ?act:.c.os at sleeve targets by the Polish fighter unit which is : tationed in
'roslau-,"~clhoengar?ten, For pin-poiant location of treslau-Langenau airfield.,, ace
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