Toul-Croix De Metz Airfield Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) A-90 Gengoult Aerodrome | |
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Lorraine Region, France | |
Coordinates | 48°41′53.25″N 005°55′02.23″E / 48.6981250°N 5.9172861°E |
Type | Military airfield |
Site information | |
Controlled by | Armée de l'Air United States Army Air Service United States Army Air Forces |
Condition | Industrial Estate |
Site history | |
Built | 1916 (Approximately) |
In use | 1916-1945 |
Battles/wars | World War I World War II |
Toul-Croix De Metz Airfield is a former military airfield which is located approximately one mile (1.6 km) northeast of Toul (Département de Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine); 160 miles (260 km) east of Paris.
The airfield had its probable origins as early as 1912, as an Aéronautique Militaire airfield, later being extensively used by the United States Army Air Service. It became a permanent airfield between the wars and during the Phony War with Nazi Germany (1939–1940) was the home of G.C. II/5 (The French Air Force descendant of the World War I Lafayette Escadrille) equipped with American Curtis Hawk 75A fighters. Seized in the Battle of France, it became a Luftwaffe airfield until being captured by the United States Third Army in September 1944. It then became a United States Army Air Forces combat airfield until the end of the war.
After the war, the airfield was redeveloped into a private industrial estate.