词条 | Fürth Airfield |
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|name=Fürth Airfield (R-28) Fliegerhorst Fürth |partof = |location= Bavaria, Germany |marksize=6|mark=Red_pog.svg |lat_dir=N|lat_deg=49|lat_min=29|lat_sec=49 |lon_dir=E|lon_deg=010|lon_min=57|lon_sec=26 |width=300|position=left }} |coordinates={{Coord|49|29|49|N|010|57|26|E|type:airport}} |image= |caption= |type=Military airfield |code= |built= |builder= Luftwaffe |materials= |height= |used= 1939-1945 (Luftwaffe) 1945-1947 (United States Army Air Forces) |demolished= |condition= |ownership= |controlled by= |garrison= |commanders= |occupants= |battles= |events= }} Fürth Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany about 2 miles north-northeast of Fürth (Bavaria); approximately 200 miles south-southwest of Berlin. In WW1 der was a Training Center of the Royal Bavarian Air Force. In the 1920s it was the first international Airport of the Cities Nürnberg and Fürth. The importance of the airport increased further when Junkers transferred first its central repair workshop, and then the final assembly line for its F-13 and G-24 aircraft from Dessau to Fürth. In 1935 it became again an Airfield of the Luftwaffe. The airfield was used during World War II by the German Luftwaffe as a combat airfield. It was seized in early April 1945 by the United States Army and used as a Ninth Air Force combat airfield until the end of the war in Europe. After the war "Army Airfield Station Fürth" was established at the airfield, being closed in June 1947. Than it became "Monteith-Barracks" of the US. Army till it was closed in 1993. Today, the airfield is abandoned and parts of the facility remains undeveloped as a relic. About 2 km south of this Airfield there was the so called "Industrieflughafen" In 1919 there was a factory of the Gothaer Waggonfabrik and in the late 1930s it was the airport of the Bachmann von Bluhmenthal Company (Industrieflughafen Fürth). Here till 1945 Bf 110s where build, repaired and converted into Nightfighters. At the end of the war it became Army Airfield R-30, then it became Nürnberg auxilary International Airport till the mid of the 1950s when the new Nürnberg International Airport was finished. Today it is completely overbuild and known as the Hardhöhe. See also{{Portal|World War II}}
References{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}External links{{USAAF 9th Air Force UK}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Furth Airfield}}{{Germany-airport-stub}} 2 : Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Germany|Military airbases established in 1939 |
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