Re: Paderborn Airfields
 

@M sIMPSON

Mark, my agency just bought a second hand copy of the Lent Papers via a british book seller. Thanks for your answers.

Re: Paderborn Airfields
 

Hallo,

I am a new member with bad english.
Paderborn is my hometown and the history of Luftpark Paderborn my hobby.
The airfield Haxterberg is not the ground of the airfield Paderborn during WW II. The Paderborn airfield during WWII was in the south of the city. Today you'll find industry-builings at that place. Some old airfield buildings are existing.

The area Auf der Lieth south/east of Paderborn was another airfield. It was called Flugplatz lieth or Ausweichhafen Dahl, because Dahl is a smal village near this airfield.

Then you'll find a Dummy-airfield near the smal village Dörenhagen.

The main airfield was lying between Paderborn, Borchen and Wewer.

Lent crashed after he was trying to land in Paderborn with a demaged engine. He died three days later in the Josefs-Hospital.
He crashed onto a field some hundred meters near the runway.

I hope I am a little help in the Promblems, with airminded regards Fitti

Re: Paderborn Airfields
 

Hallo Fitti,

If you are sending me a private message we could write in German, here on the forum I will write you in the English language:
Perhaps interesting for you is to know that the first loss of the unit which stayed very long in Venlo (the airfield in my hometown), the I./NJG 1, occured on 22th June 1940: the crew of Fw. Thier/Fw. Brutsche were shot down by accident near/over Paderborn by another German crew (not even a nightfighter!). The last Fliegerhorstkommandant in Venlo went to Paderborn, were he was captured by American forces.

All the best, perhaps we can continue in German?

Marcel Hogenhuis (Förderverein Ehemaliger Fliegerhorst Venlo e.V.)
www.fliegerhorst-venlo.net