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Re: flugplatz Lemonsky
Oquaig,
Not much of an airfield:
VVS Airfield near Memel (Klaipeda):
Priekule (Grabsten)/18 km SE of Klaipeda (Memel) on the coast of Lithuania.
Klaipėda (LITH) (a.k.a. Memel-Rumpischken) (55 41 50 N - 21 09 30 E) (AFHRA)
General: emergency landing ground (Notlandeplatz) in present-day Lithuania on the Baltic coast and located 2 km SE of the city. History: 1927 listed as a civil/commercial landing ground (Verkehrslandeplatz). Surface and Dimensions: drained grass surface measuring approx. 595 x 550 meters (650 x 600 yards). Infrastructure: no information found.
Operational Units: 4.(H)/Aufkl.Gr. 21 (Jun 41).
Station Commands: none identified.
Station Units (on various dates – not complete): Stab/Flak-Rgt. 6 (mot.) (Dec 44); Stab III.(Flum.Mess)/Ln.-Rgt. 260 (Sep 44 – Jan 45)?; part of Lw.-Bau-Btl. 108/VI (K) (Oct-Nov 44); Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 314/VI (Jun 41); elements of Sanitätsbereitschaft (mot) d.Lw. 7/VII (or 7/XVII?) (fall 44).
[Sources: AFHRA A5258 p.959 (1944); chronologies; BA-MA; NARA; PRO/NA; web site ww2.dk]
If Memel had 3 "airfields" in June 1941, then the other two must have been satellite airstrips hastily built by the Soviets between summer 1940 and spring 1941.
This is all I have, but maybe you will find something useful here. It certainly didn't get much Luftwaffe use in June-July 1941.
L.
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