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Re: French airfields June 1940; Herbouville, Moisy and Ouzouer-le-Doyen.
I doubt if this will help very much, but here is some wartime information from the A.I.2(b) shop:
Herbouville (FR) (a.k.a. Herbouville la Brédache) (47 56 15 N – 01 16 40 E)
General: landing ground in north-central France 14.5 km SSW of Châteaudun and 1.5 km NE of Brévainville. History: a former landing area rehabilitated in late spring 1944 as a dispersal field for Châteaudun airfield. Had just become serviceable in late Jun 44. Surface and Dimensions: grass surface or farm land measuring approx. 915 x 775 meters (1000 x 850 yards). Infrastructure: none noted. Dispersal: 9 aircraft parking bays were cut into the edge of a small wood along the S boundary. Defenses: none noted.
Remarks: none.
Operational Units: none identified.
Station Commands: none identified.
Station Units (on various dates – not complete): none identified.
[Sources: AFHRA A5259 p.1650 (25 Jun 44) and A.I.2.(b)/Air Ministry Amendment dated 8 Jul 44 in BNA(PRO)/AIR 40; chronologies; BA-MA; NARA; PRO/NA; web site ww2.dk]
Moisy
Listed in the A.I.2(b) Airfields Gazetteer dated 1.9.43 as a “Former Landing Ground”. It had no other names and was not used by the Luftwaffe.
Ouzouer-le-Doyen
Not listed in the 1.9.43 Gazetteer.
These landing grounds were often little more than cow pastures or open fields and after use for a couple of days quickly passed into history and were never mentioned again.
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