22 Aug 44 P-47 near Tours sur Marne (nr Athis)

[Larry deZeng]

Some 20 or so years ago, I remember seeing a list authored by Luftflotte 3 or by Feldluftgaukdo. Westfrankreich that identified all of the airfields, landing grounds, field airstrips, alternate landing grounds, satellites and dispersal fields in France on or about 1 July 1944. I knew it could only be in the microfilmed Luftwaffe documents from NARA T-321, T-405 or T-971, so I spent all of today checking the 25 or so rolls that I have but without any luck. I have to assume that it's in one of the other 382 rolls from these series that I borrowed from interlibrary loan rather than purchase. I was hoping this list might clear up the puzzle surrounding these 4 or 5 airfields regarding their locations and proper names. Two of these "airfields" are, I suspect, one of the following:

Aussenliegeplatz: remote dispersal or outlying parking area.
Ausweichflugplatz: alternative airfield, satellite airfield or dispersal airfield (minor – usually no services).
Behelfsflugplatz: auxiliary airfield.

The list I was looking for would have answered this question.

L.