Valence airfield

[Andy Mitchell]

Dan,

Many thanks for your generous comments.

Periodically, I ask if anyone wishes to contribute articles to the site but in reality have very few takers.

Would be interested in anything on Eleusis, need to add more airfields to that section on the Wiki. Will contact you separately regarding this.

I have read with great interest your pages on Korsika - unfortunately one of the links is dead (Pilot & Plane - One of Helbig's Flyers).

I also found my way to the pages on Joseph Heller and am currently enjoying your article comparing the characters in Catch-22 with the real life individuals in the 488th etc.

Once again many thanks

[Larry deZeng]

A.Mitchell said in part:

Would be interested in anything on Eleusis, need to add more airfields to that section on the Wiki.

Here is a contribution for this airfield. I am posting it here in case others may wish to add to it or recommend changes. We have several members from Greece who visit here regularly and may have some good information to add. What you see is not complete by any means but is the best that could be reconstructed from what documents survive. The air units can, of course, be broken down to Gruppe level and fleshed out with specific dates as this is mostly known now (the Michael Holm site will give you most of this). I leave that little task to you. Once this thread has been exposed for a week or so, you may cut and paste it into your Wiki site so it remains easily accessible and permanently installed on the internet.

Eleusis (GR) (a.k.a. Athens-Eleusis; Elevsis) (38 03 N – 23 33 E)
General: Fliegerhorst 18 km WNW of Athens in S Greece; airfield 3 km NNE of the town. Taken over by the Luftwaffe 27-30 Apr 41. Played a major role in the air war over the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. Attacked on 15 November 1943 (by B-24s); 17 and 18 November (by B-17s); 6 December (by 45 B-24s); 8 December (by B-17s); 14 December (by B-17s); 20 December (by B-17s); 15 September 1944 (by B-24s). Evacuated by the Luftwaffe in Oct 44.
Air Units: LG 1 (May 41 - 1942); II./KG 26 (May 41); I.(Jagd)/LG 2 (May 41); KG 26 (1941-42); St.G. 3 (1943); Stab and Stabsstaffel/SG 3 (Oct – Dec 43); JG 27 (May 41, 1942); KG 100 (1943); 11./ZG 26 (Jun 43 – Sep 44); 4./Minensuchgruppe 1 (1944); IV./TG 1 (1944); KG 4 (Sep – Oct 44);
Station Units: Fl.H.Kdtr. E 15/VII (1941); Fl.H.Kdtr. A 202/IV (to c. Mar 43); Fl.H.Kdtr. A 210/III (Apr 43 – May 44); Fl.H.Kdtr. A(o) 105/XVII (May – Oct 44);
Other: Fl.Werkstatt-Zug (Skoda) 4/VI (1941); Frontreparaturbetrieb GL 2563 (Junkers) (1941-42); Feldwerft-Abt. IV./20 (1942-43); 132. Flugh.Betr.Kp. (Qu) (1944); Werft-Kp. 58 (1944); Werftzüge 105, 719 and 720 (1944); 1. Lufttorpedo-Betr.Kp. (1944); 10. Lufttorpedo-Betr.Kp. (1944); Nachschub-Kp. d.Lw. 2/I (1941); mittl.Fl.Betr.St.Kol. 1/VI (1941); Flug-Betr.St.Kol. 519/VI (1944); Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 6/XVII (1941); Lw.-Baugeräte-Zug 14/IV (1942-43); Ger.Kol. Lw.-Bau-Btl. 130/XVII (1944); Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 304/VI (1942-44); Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 146/XI (1944); 22.(schw.Flugm.)/Luftgau-Nachr.Rgt. Südost; I./Flak-Rgt. 6 (1941); Flakscheinw.Abt. 449 (1941-42); gem.Flak-Abt. 131 (1942); le.Flak-Abt. 891 (1942-44);

L.