Rely-Norrent-Fontes Airfield

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'Clock High!:

Hughes C
Rely-Norrent-Fontes airfield
Wed Oct 23 15:02:36 2002
80.9.218.191

Hello,

I'm looking for the units that were based at Rely (= Norrent-Fontes) airfield, between Bethune and St Omer in northern France.

Many local people say the planes were Stukas, but I never found to which units they belonged.

thanks in advance

Hughes

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Larry deZeng
Re: Rely-Norrent-Fontes airfield
Wed Oct 23 22:48:09 2002
205.188.209.14

No Stuka units appear to have been permanently based at Norrent-Fontes/25 km SE of St-Pol, but that is not to say that a Staffel or a Gruppe did not temporarily use it for some brief period. However, the airfield does crop up in the documents and literature from time-to-time, so it was in use. Maybe you should go to the www.ww2.dk website and check out the base locations for the various units that took part in the Battle of Britain. Incidently, the airfield at Norrent-Fontes was run during the 1940-41 period by Fliegerhorstkommandantur (E) 18/VI, which was subordinated to Kommando Flughafenbereich 8/III at St-Omer.

L.