St. Trond airbase - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum

Pawel Burchard · #1 20th October 2005, 16:06

In 1940/1941 III./K.G. 3 was based at St. Trond in Belgium. What was the exact airfield? Was is Brustum/Brustem or maybe Bevingen? Is there any other 'vliegveld' in this area? :)

Kind regards,
Pawel

Eric Larger · #2 20th October 2005, 16:49

Pawel

It was called Brustem too . I know it .

Eric

Pawel Burchard · #3 20th October 2005, 17:02

Thank you Eric, and similar question about K.G. 77:
Laon/Athies or Laon/Couvron
and Reims/Prunay or Reims/Champagne?

Kind regards,
Pawel Burchard

Pierre Watteeuw · #4 20th October 2005, 19:46

Hi Pavel

Please find in annex a reply to your questions regarding Brustem, laon and Reims

regards,

Pierre

Pawel Burchard · #5 20th October 2005, 20:21

Beautiful

Thank you very much Pierre.

Best wishes,
Pawel

Keizer Cali · #6 26th October 2005, 13:14

Pawel,

Please contact me off board for any additional information you may require as regards St. Trond / Sint-Truiden / Brustem airfield. I performed an extensive study on its WW II history, and I've lived for approx. 15 years next to it.

Best regards,

K.C.

mightythor99 · #7 29th May 2007, 06:16

i have a wwii german photo album, from a luftwaffe san. staffel, from st. trond airbase. looks like he was there for a while, then transfered to ussr, southern, near stalingrad area.............ilista, which i just did a little research on,...........pretty interesting!
does anyone know what luft unit was stationed there in '42/43ish? looks like he might have been transfered to a flak outfit. the russians were pretty hard on the population, moved the survivors to siberia. most of them died there, or trailed the germans,.........and were handed back over to the russians after the war.........to what ends we all know happened to everyone who fought against the russians, who were "russian".

wstb1958 · #8 16th April 2010, 10:53

Hi ,
I'm new on this site but I'm living in Sint-Truiden ( this is the flamish name and his french name is Saint-Trond ) and I was for a long period also stationed on the airfield as a Captain ( now being a LCL ). The local popultion always talks about BRUSTEM because the airfield was located on the territory of the village with the same name.
BEVINGEN was also the name of a small village in the vicinity of the town Saint-Trond and the Germans constructed there a complete compound with swimming-pool.
Best regards ,
Wim