Marcel -
This is the only airfield in France used by the Luftwaffe with the name Rouvres:
Étain (FR) (a.k.a. Étain-Rouvres) (49 13 25 N – 05 40 45 E)
General: landing ground in E France 39 km WNW of Metz; airfield located 3.25 km ENE of Étain. Lw. Code: Feldflugplatz 617. History: used as a landing ground by the French Air Force in May-Jun 40. No Luftwaffe activity seen there until the beginning of 1943. Surface and Dimensions: grass surface in good condition measuring approx. 1235 x 1415 meters (1350 x 1550 yards) with an irregular shape. No paved runway. Equipped with perimeter lighting, a beam approach system and a probable flare-path. Fuel and Ammunition: had triple refueling points at the NE and SW corners. Infrastructure: there were 2 workshop huts and the SE corner. Personnel were accommodated in the local farms and villages. The nearest rail connection was in Étain. Dispersal: no organized dispersal facilities as of Apr 44 - aircraft were parked along the perimeter or in fields off the E boundary. Defenses: none noted in Apr 44.
The only unit I can find that was actually based there in mid-summer 1944 was Sanitäts-Flugbereitschaft 4. So TGr. 30, which was based at Metz-Diedenhofen at that time, must have been using it as a dispersal field.
You say you are "a poor old nightfighter buff", Marcel. So I am guessing that those two cute kiddies in your avatar are your great-grandchildren?
L.
