Airfields in the Netherlands

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Juergen
Rheinberg and other airfields
Fri Aug 2 19:39:31 2002
217.84.4.12

Hello everybody,

the column of JG 3 within the main page of ww2.dk tells that the Stab/JG 3 had been stationed at Rheinberg (6.9. - 8.11.43). I live near Rheinberg, West Germany and I am sure there never was an airfield. Which town could be meant ? I have a similar problem with the airfields of Millingen and Harscamp.

Regards, Juergen

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John Manrho
Millingen and Harskamp.
Sat Aug 3 15:03:36 2002
213.75.76.231

Millingen and Harskamp are both in the Netherlands. I believe both were used as landing grounds by the Dutch Army before May 1940. I don't think they were used by the Luftwaffe as such, may be as emergency landing grounds or dummy airfields.

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Philip
Harskamp
Sun Aug 4 16:37:24 2002
213.93.31.206

Harskamp was and still is are firing range area, so don't think any pilot would like to land his plane there, the German used it for the same reasons during the war, also it had flak position.

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Marcel Hogenhuis
Millingen, Harskamp
Mon Aug 5 09:39:53 2002
195.241.242.7

Hello,

As a member of the Dutch Workgroup Airfields, preparing a book about the history of all Dutch airfields in WW-2, I faintly do remember that Millingen and the Harskamp were sometimes used as emergency landing grounds but I have no info whatsoever at hand to confirm my blurred memory.

Marcel Hogenhuis
Study Group Venlo Airfield in WW-2

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John Manrho
Havelte?
Tue Aug 6 15:58:03 2002
62.58.195.97

Hello Marcel, who is dealing with Havelte-Steenwijk airfield, one of the more interesting "unknown" airfields of the Luftwaffe?.

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Jaap Woortman
Harskamp/Nieuw-Millingen en Havelte.
Wed Aug 7 10:02:09 2002
213.5.55.99

As chairman of the Working-Group Airfields I can almost answer all these questions.
First Harskamp.
During WWII it had a dual role. It was a firing practise range but also a decoy for Deelen airfield. It was equiped like all the decoys in the Netherlands. For more info see the book mentioned by Marcel in November/December 2003.
Nieuw-Millingen is a little more difficult. Being abroad I have not all my files with me, but if I remember well Nieuw-Millingen was mentioned at a survey of 1-1-1945 of Aufloeckerungsplaetze in the Netherlands of the Luftwaffe.
This were small airstrips were the Luftwaffe planes could hide during the day and night for the Allied Jabo's and fly to their operational airfield if needed for an operation. Also Rijssel was such a field but then for Twente aifield. Almost all the big airfields have had such a field but I do not know if Eindhoven has had such a field.
Our member Coen Cornelissen has done Havelte but is now in Kabul for a long time. I have done some research for Coen about this airfield. To my openion Havelte was the replacement for Norg/Peest and Peest was a complete failure. I have also done the research for Peest.
Perhaps I can help you John?

Jaap

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Juergen
Millingen, Harscamp etc.
Fri Aug 9 19:31:55 2002
217.228.35.218

Hello colleagues,

thanks for the lot of infos. The stripes at Milingen and Harscamp are mentioned in Prien´s history of JG 77 part IV. For "Bodenplatte" both areas had been elected as auxiliary resp. emergency a/f´s.

Regards, Juergen

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Dieter
Bönninghardt
Tue Aug 6 11:16:04 2002
194.77.253.245

Hallo Jürgen,

I think, the airfield next to Rheinberg was at Bönninghardt (near Alpen); u.a, JG 26

mfG

Dieter

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Peter
Fliegerhorst in Netherlands 1944
Sun Aug 10 11:46:50 2003
80.61.33.37

Can some one provide me a list of the locations which Airfields the Germans used in the Neterlands in 1944-1945.

- Schiphol
- Soesterberg
- Gilze
- Leeuwarden

Any more?

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John Manrho
Dutch airfields
Sun Aug 10 13:37:44 2003
195.121.70.113

There were "several" more; Eelde, Steenwijk, Twenthe, Teuge, Deelen, Bergen (NH), De Kooy, Texel, Hilversum, Haamstede, Woensdrecht, Volkel, Eindhoven, Venlo, Souburg, etc. A new publication on the use of Dutch airfields in wartime will be published later this year by the RNlAF Historical Section.

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Wybe Buising
see also www.airwar39-45.nl/projects (nm)
Sun Aug 10 21:19:32 2003
62.59.1.131