Mourmelon-le-Grand Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) A-80 | |
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Champagne-Ardenne Region, France | |
Coordinates | 49°06′45″N 004°22′20″E / 49.11250°N 4.37222°E |
Type | Military airfield |
Site information | |
Controlled by | United States Army Air Forces |
Site history | |
Built by | IX Engineering Command |
In use | September 1944 – July 1945 |
Materials | Pierces Steel Planking (PSP) |
Battles/wars | Western Front (World War II) Northern France Campaign |
Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in France. It lies approximately 1 mile (2 km) east-southeast of Mourmelon-le-Grand and 93 miles (150 km) northeast of Paris.
The airfield was a semi-permanent facility built by the USAAF in the Champagne region west of Monte Carnillet which was a fiercely contested region of the World War I Western Front. The 6000' (1830 m) Pierced Steel Planking runway of the airfield supported fighter and transport aircraft from September 1944 through the end of the war in Europe.