Flugplatz Ossinowka

[Witold K.]

Hi everybody
In spring of 1942 I./JG26 was transfered to the Eastern Front and arround may/june that year operated from airfield Ossinovka. Does anybody know exact location of that place?
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[Chris Goss]

Surely May 1943 not 1942?

[Urusut]

Деревня Осиновка Витебского района Витебской области

n 55° 5' 42.252" e 30° 4' 16.7844"


Расстояние до районного центра: Витебск: (13 км.)

[edwest2]

Витебск = Vitebsk (and no, I can't read Cyrillic).

[Larry deZeng]

There may be several, but this is the one given in the German documents.


Ossinowka (RUSS) (a.k.a. Osinovka) (ZNr. 10-7669) (c. 54 21 N – 33 55 E).
General: field airstrip (Feldflugplatz) in W Russia 130 km ESE of Smolensk and 9 km SSW of Spas-Demensk. History: no information found. Surface and Dimensions: natural surface measuring approx. 1000 x 750 meters (1095 x 820 yards). Infrastructure: no details found. Dispersal: no details found.
Remarks: none.
Operational Units: elements of I./JG 51 (Jul/Aug 42); IV./JG 51 (Jul/Aug 42); I./JG 26 (May 43).
Station Commands: none identified but probably a small detachment of Fl.H.Kdtr. E 24/IV (Spas-Demensk).
Station Units (on various dates – not complete): none identified.
[Sources: chronologies; AFHRA, BA-MA; NARA incl. T-321 roll 239/OKL 903; OKL Flugplatzatlas; PRO/NA; web site ww2.dk]

L.

[Witold K.]

Thanks for the info. Off course it was first half of 1943. It helps to find out from where the claims of I./JG26 wher made. However some are not easy to determine. For instance:
31.05.43 Uffz. Erich Ahrens 3./JG 26 Il-2  16 362: at 500 m. 13.10 Film C. 2032/II Anerk: Nr. 132
31.05.43 Uffz. Heinz Münch 3./JG 26 Il-2  16 334: at 3-500 m. 13.12 Film C. 2032/II Anerk: Nr. 133
31.05.43 Fw. Josef Zirngibl 3./JG 26 P-2  26 854: at 4-5.000 m. 16.05 Film C. 2032/II Anerk: Nr. 134
Where they made from further north or furher south. Or a position is in error?
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