Richard T Eger
07-03-2003, 02:43 PM
From 12 O'Clock High!:
Huib Ottens
Flughafen Oranienburg 1939-1945 info?
Tue Jun 3 20:42:09 2003
195.121.29.122
Gruppe,
I am looking for information regarding Flughafen Oranienburg 1939-1945.
Recently several books covering the history of German airports during WW II have been published.
Up until now I haven't seen a publication concerning Flughafen Oranienburg. Did I miss something, is there a project underway or is this still a piece of "open" history?
As far as I know Oranienburg was both a Heinkel factory airfield and an operational Luftwaffe airbase.
I was wondering if it was common practise that all the flights, incidents and crashes that occured on a factory airfield were registered in an "airfield log".
If this was common practise, I assume that these documents were/are the property of the factory owning or operating from the airfield.
Where would these documents be stored if they weren't destroyed during or after the war? I know that part of the Heinkel archives are now at the Deutsches Museum but probably most Heinkel archives were taken to Russia at the end of the war.
Would these documents still be in Russia or have they been returned to (former Eastern?) Germany.
A lot of questions (all part of my on-going Horten research) but I hope that some answers are available.
TIA
Nurflügel Forever!
Huib Ottens
Huib Ottens
Flughafen Oranienburg 1939-1945 info?
Tue Jun 3 20:42:09 2003
195.121.29.122
Gruppe,
I am looking for information regarding Flughafen Oranienburg 1939-1945.
Recently several books covering the history of German airports during WW II have been published.
Up until now I haven't seen a publication concerning Flughafen Oranienburg. Did I miss something, is there a project underway or is this still a piece of "open" history?
As far as I know Oranienburg was both a Heinkel factory airfield and an operational Luftwaffe airbase.
I was wondering if it was common practise that all the flights, incidents and crashes that occured on a factory airfield were registered in an "airfield log".
If this was common practise, I assume that these documents were/are the property of the factory owning or operating from the airfield.
Where would these documents be stored if they weren't destroyed during or after the war? I know that part of the Heinkel archives are now at the Deutsches Museum but probably most Heinkel archives were taken to Russia at the end of the war.
Would these documents still be in Russia or have they been returned to (former Eastern?) Germany.
A lot of questions (all part of my on-going Horten research) but I hope that some answers are available.
TIA
Nurflügel Forever!
Huib Ottens