Münster-Handorf Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany about 5 miles east-northeast of Münster (Nordrhein-Westfalen); approximately...

Airfield, Belgium, 26 November 1944 Münster-Handorf Airfield, Germany, 21 April 1945 Bayreuth-Bindlach Airfield, Germany, c. 25 June 1945 Fritzlar Air...

Paderborn before recommending a landing at Münster-Handorf Airfield. Failing to find Münster-Handorf Airfield, Becker made a crash landing in a field, damaging...

Airfield, Belgium, 26 November 1944 Münster-Handorf Airfield, Germany, 14 April 1945 Bayreuth-Bindlach Airfield, Germany, 28 June 1945 Fritzlar Air Base...

responsible for planning, operations, intelligence, weapons training, and airfield services for six squadrons assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing. It develops...

Allied breakthrough at Saint-Lo on 25 July, then moved to Tour-en-Bessin Airfield in France a few days later. The 513th participated in the reduction of...

Riegel was appointed Gruppenkommandeur to command I. Gruppe at Münster-Handorf Airfield. The command staffel and I. Gruppe remained the only combat units...

white. Aircraft is Republic P-47D Thunderbolt Skirty Bert III at Münster-Handorf Airfield, Germany in April 1945. The photo caption states the aircraft is...

2017. Johnson, 1st Lt. David C. (1988). U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V-E Day (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Research Division, USAF...

46/41/40 NJG 1 Knight's Cross KIA 6 December 1944 – 10 km NW of Münster-Handorf airfield by a 85 Sqdn Mosquito Jakob Augustin* Leutnant 16 JG 2 MIA 15 July...

of Jagdgeschwader 27 (JG 27—27th Fighter Wing) was created at Münster-Handorf Airfield and placed under command of Hauptmann Helmut Riegel. Homuth was...

JG 3 was ordered to Münster-Handorf Airfield and Ibel was replaced by Oberstleutnant Carl Vieck as commander of JG 3. At Münster-Handorf, Ibel was tasked...

January 1945 Asch Airfield (Y-29), Belgium, 8 February 1945 Münster-Handorf Airfield (Y-94), Germany, 15 April 1945 AAF Station Nordholz (R-56), Germany...

Trained with numerous attack aircraft both at Key Field and at Congree Army Airfield, South Carolina until May 1944. Converted to a Fighter-Bomber group and...

Stepanivka. The following day, the Gruppe began its relocation to Münster-Handorf Airfield in Germany. Schleef's 93rd and last aerial victory claimed on the...

of Jagdgeschwader 27 (JG 27—27th Fighter Wing) was created at Münster-Handorf Airfield and placed under command of Hauptmann Helmut Riegel. Redlich was...

Front and flew in Defense of the Reich. The Gruppe arrived at Münster-Handorf Airfield the following day where they were placed under its new commander...

then back to Germany where it was based at Münster-Handorf Airfield. III. Gruppe arrived in Münster-Handorf on 3 August where it was placed under the command...

equipped with the Bf 109 G-4 and G-6. Until their relocation to Münster-Handorf Airfield in late July, the Gruppe trained and prepared for action in defense...

(secondary coordinates) Advanced landing grounds (ALGs) were temporary advance airfields constructed by the Allies during World War II during the liberation of...

stopovers at Beauvais Airfield, Florennes Airfield and Bonn-Hangelar Airfield at Sankt Augustin before retreating to an airfield at Oldenburg. At Oldenburg...

Münster-Handorf on 14 January. On the night of 18 February, Kipp and Huletsky destroyed two Me 410s that were returning to Juvincourt Airfield after having...

London. 2008. ISBN 978-1-84603-294-3 Franks, Norman The Battle of the Airfields: 1 January 1945. Grub Street. 1994. London. ISBN 0-7183-0448-9 & ISBN 1-902304-42-X...

from Varrelbusch. I./KG 54 and II./KG 2 began the operation from Münster and Handorf, although Juvincourt, Coulommiers and Soesterberg were used by these...

(Werknummer 140078—factory number) was shot down 10 km (6.2 mi) northwest of Münster-Handorf by a De Havilland Mosquito night fighter of the Fighter Interception...