Castelvetrano Airfield

Castelvetrano Airfield
Part of Twelfth Air Force
Coordinates37°40′23.97″N 012°46′29.28″E / 37.6733250°N 12.7748000°E / 37.6733250; 12.7748000
TypeMilitary Airfield
Site information
Controlled byRegia Aeronautica
United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built1930s
In use1944
Castelvetrano Airfield is located in Italy
Castelvetrano Airfield
Castelvetrano Airfield
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Location of Castelvetrano Airfield, Italy

Castelvetrano Airfield is a decommissioned World War II military airfield in Sicily which is located approximately 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) southwest of Castelvetrano. The airfield had been an Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica), seized by the United States Army during the Invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky), and used as part of Sicilian Campaign and the Allied Invasion of Italy in 1943.

History

When the Axis Forces were driven out of Cyrenaica during Operation Crusader in December 1941, they could no longer fly in supplies from Crete to Derna. Instead, the Regia Aeronautica and German Luftwaffe began flying transport missions from airfields in Sicily, including Castelvetrano. On 4 January 1942 Castelvetrano was attacked by a force of Royal Air Force Blenheim IV bombers flying from Luqa airfield on Malta, which caught 75 aircraft 'parked wing-tip to wing-tip ... the airfield was left a smoking ruin'. That night Wellington IC bombers from Luqa added to the damage.[1]

After its capture the airfield was primarily used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force units:

When the Americans moved out, the airfield was closed and dismantled. Today, the main runway of the airfield is clearly visible in aerial photography but no structures of other components of the airfield remain.

Notes

  1. ^ Playfair, pp. 94, 416.

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  • Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
  • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
  • Maj-Gen I.S.O. Playfair, History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series: The Mediterranean and Middle East, Vol III: (September 1941 to September 1942) British Fortunes reach their Lowest Ebb, London: HMSO, 1960 /Uckfield, Naval & Military Press, 2004, ISBN 1-845740-67-X


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