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Old 25th October 2009, 17:07
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Re: Airfield Runways in Norway

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Originally Posted by SES View Post
Hi,
The Wehrmacht indeed had a group of land survey experts "Wehrgeologen" who surveyed the environment before any construction was contemplated.
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SES
True, but the survey work for Bardufoss and Banak was carried out by personnel from Luftgaukdo. Norwegen's Bauamt and the regional Lw.-Bauamt at Trondheim. They had civilian ranks, e.g., Reg.Bau-Inspekteur, etc., but they were Luftwaffe civilian employees. It could be that they relied on the geological survey work done by the Norwegians before the war because both of those airfields already existed prior to the arrival of the Luftwaffe in fall 1940.

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