Jaap Woortman
06-28-2000, 07:05 PM
Dear friends,
Since a long time we, that is the Dutch Working Group Airfields, are strugling with the idea that the Germans must have prepared the plans for building airfields in the West before they started the war. When you look at the airfields in Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, I am not sure about Norway, they all "look" the same. Three runways in the A-shape, a control tower, Werft and Gefechtsstand and a Liegeplatz for each Staffel. Hangars from Hobag, Deisel or Junkers with a standard layout. No perimeter track. Flak postions 2cm on the field, 3.7 mm outside the field and one or two 8.8 or 10.5cm Flak positions outside the field. A railway and loading/unloading ramp. And several Siedlung with barracks outside the field. When you look at the time between occupation and start of the construction, the time is so short that the plans must have been ready even with the direction of the runways. Als the runways are standard. The only variation is the length. Depending on the type of plane for which the field is build for. BUT I DO NOT HAVE ANY PROOF! have you found any document for this hypothesis?
Jaap
Since a long time we, that is the Dutch Working Group Airfields, are strugling with the idea that the Germans must have prepared the plans for building airfields in the West before they started the war. When you look at the airfields in Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, I am not sure about Norway, they all "look" the same. Three runways in the A-shape, a control tower, Werft and Gefechtsstand and a Liegeplatz for each Staffel. Hangars from Hobag, Deisel or Junkers with a standard layout. No perimeter track. Flak postions 2cm on the field, 3.7 mm outside the field and one or two 8.8 or 10.5cm Flak positions outside the field. A railway and loading/unloading ramp. And several Siedlung with barracks outside the field. When you look at the time between occupation and start of the construction, the time is so short that the plans must have been ready even with the direction of the runways. Als the runways are standard. The only variation is the length. Depending on the type of plane for which the field is build for. BUT I DO NOT HAVE ANY PROOF! have you found any document for this hypothesis?
Jaap