Has anyone ever found aerial photos or a map of these airfields ?

[Larry deZeng]

Oquaig -

Here are a couple of them.................I think you will find some or all of the others, too, but you will have to search through my listings for Luftwaffe Airfields in Poland and my list for Russia and Ukraine. Good Luck!
P.S. as for the name of the villages where the aircrew slept, if recorded, it would only be found in unit KTB'er and in the records of the German Ortskommandantur for those villages.

L. deZ.



Rogozniczka (POL) (a.k.a. Rogoznica, Rogoźnica) (52 01 50 N – 22 52 10 E)
General: landing ground (Landeplatz) in C Poland (E Poland today) 44 km ESE of Siedlce,19 km W of Biala Podlaska and 8 km NE of Miedzyrzec Podlaski. History: one of the numerous airfields developed by the Lw. in eastern Poland 1940-41 in preparation for the attack on the USSR in Jun 41. Reverted to caretaker status in Sep 41 and apparently not used again.
Operational Units: I./KG 53 (Jun-Jul 41).
Station Commands: Fl.H.Kdtr. E 3/IV (Jun 41); Fl.Pl.Kdo. A 17/II (Sep 41).
Station Units (on various dates – not complete): Lw.-Bau-Btl. 6/XIII (Jun 41); Lw.-BauGerätezug 9/XI (Jun 41); m.Fl.Betr.St.Kol. 4/IV (Jun 41); Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 20/XI (Jun 41); Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 240/VI (Jun, Sep 41); Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 299/VI (Jun 41).
[Sources: AFHRA A5263 p.1123 (30 Oct 44); chronologies; BA-MA; NARA; PRO/NA; web site ww2.dk]


Starawies (POL) (a.k.a. Starawieś, Stara Wieś?, Tończa, Wegrow?) (c. 52 27 55 N –
21 57 30 E?)
General: landing ground (Landeplatz) in C Poland 36-41 km NW of Siedlce, 8.5 km NNW of
Wegrow and within 1 to 1.5 km from both Starawies and Toncza. History: a pre-war
Polish AF field. After brief use by Luftwaffe fighters in June 1941, it was inactivated and
not heard of again. Infrastructure: had fuel and munitions storage and barracks.
Operational Units: I./JG 51 (Jun 41).
Station Commands: Fl.Pl.Kdo. A 3/II (Sep 41).
Station Units (on various dates – not complete): Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 70/VI (Sep 41).
[Sources: AFHRA A5263 pp.1125 and 1131 (30 Oct 44); chronologies; BA-MA; NARA;
PRO/NA; web site ww2.dk]

[oquaig]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

Oquaig -

Here are a couple of them.................I think you will find some or all of the others, too, but you will have to search through my listings for Luftwaffe Airfields in Poland and my list for Russia and Ukraine. Good Luck!
P.S. as for the name of the villages where the aircrew slept, if recorded, it would only be found in unit KTB'er and in the records of the German Ortskommandantur for those villages.

L. deZ.

Hi Larry,

When I look for airfields your listings at Luftwaffe Airfields is always the first place I look. I looked up Starawies and saw “Wegrów” and I am going “naw, that can’t be it”. There are more than a dozen Starawies, Stara Wies, Starowies and Staro Wies within a 100 km radius of Siedlce. I looked at “Forgotten Airfields”. I looked at Deutsche Heereskarte to see which Starawies were on the map in 1941. I looked at a couple of Russian language sites, including the one that Mikhail Timin used to post on. I looked at popular literature accounts of JG 51…I was amused by the 1944 LW aerial of Siedlce airfield. A half km to the east of it is another Starawies.

Turns out the Starawies NNW of Wegrów is in fact the correct place, but on the eastern side of town between Starawies and Toncza. The airfield is at 52.454636N, 21.973309E. If you look at it long enough you see the outline of the squarish airfield where two roads form an X off center, very similar to Krzewica airfield (52.055625N, 22.696689E), which is a perfect square 1.3 x 1.3 km in size.

Thanks again
oquaig