Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield

Mourmelon-le-Grand
Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) A-80
Champagne-Ardenne Region, France
Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield is located in France
Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield
Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield
Coordinates49°06′45″N 004°22′20″E / 49.11250°N 4.37222°E / 49.11250; 4.37222
TypeMilitary airfield
Site information
Controlled byUnited States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built byIX Engineering Command
In useSeptember 1944 – July 1945
MaterialsPierces Steel Planking (PSP)
Battles/warsWestern 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.