Airfields in Bessarabia - concrete runways?

[Bo Johansson]

According with the memories of the famous soviet ace Alexander Pokryshkin, who spent june-july 1941 here in the 55th IAP, the runways of Iasy and Roman were done concrete for sure. His first flight was fulfiled for the recon of Iasy (no enemy plane on the ground) and Roman (filled by enemy planes) on the morning of june 22.
The 55th IAP in their Grigiriopol airbase, also had brand new concrete runways, which was finished dead before the beggining of war.
Of cource, the concrete runways also were situated in Odessa, Beltsy and Tiraspol.
By the way, it should be very intresting, if you could to spread the map not so far to the south - to include the esthuary of Danube. In the first monthes of war here were a plenty of very intresting events:
- fierce air batles over Ismail-Sulina region during first 30 days of war
- the seizing the Sulina sity by russian marines on the second night of war (this beachhead was defenced against all odds during almost one month)
- battles between russian and romanian river monitors
- final breakthrou of russian Danube flotilla from Ismail to Odessa after the crossing of german-romanian forces of Dniest river, ets