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Re: Stab. and I.KG 2 were based in "Silce" , but where is the airfield ?
Sielec (Selets'): 10 km SSE of Wladimir Wolynsk (Volodymyr-Volynsky), which is 432 km SSW of Minsk. Source has this marked as an Einsatzhafen. Directory No. 10 2341. Map and grid square T51.41.1.
The only other possibility from this source is:
Sloboda-Boleschowska: 15 km SW of Bolechow, which is 22 km S of Stry (Stryj, Stryy) and nearly 1,200 km from Moscow. Construction was underway here in September 1943.
Source:
Genst.d.Lw. document OKL 903, Flugplatzübersicht der UdSSR, Sep 43.
Bottom Line: who knows? There are 35 places with the name "Sloboda" is Belarus (Belorussia). One of them was 47 km NNW of Smolensk and in German hands on 21 Jul 41, and the airfield there protected by elements of Res.Flak-Abt. 384, another in the Minsk area on 5 Jul 41 (II.(Schl.)/LG 2), another 72 km SW of Minsk on 10 Jul (Stab and I./KG 2, I./St.G. 2), another 25 km NE of Minsk on 17 Jul 41 (Koflug 11/XI). Another problem is that the active airfields by this name that were in western Belorussia/Eastern Poland in summer 1941 were quite like deactivated by the Germans by the end of 1941 and therefore may not appear in the September 1943 Directory. There were 2 others listed in this Directory but they can be ignored. One was 100 km NW of Orel and the other was 55 km WSW of Bryansk.
Other Sloboda, etc. locations:
Sielc: 27 km WSW of Ostroleka in NE Poland
Sloboda: 34 km E of Minsk.
L.
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