Serragia Airfield.png) | |
|---|---|
| Part ofTwelfth Air Force | |
| Site information | |
| Type | Military airfield |
| Controlled by | United States Army Air Forces |
| Location | |
  Serragia Airfield Location of Serragia Airfield, France | |
| Coordinates | 42°29′15″N009°30′00″E / 42.48750°N 9.50000°E /42.48750; 9.50000 |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1942 |
| In use | 1942-1944 |
Serragia Airfield is an abandoned military airfield inFrance, located approximately 26 km west-southwest of Porto-Vecchio onCorsica. Its last known use was by theUnited States Army Air ForceTwelfth Air Force in 1944.
After the forced withdrawal of German forces from Corsica in September 1943, elements of the Twelfth Air Force57th Bombardment Wing were moved to the island.Serragia Airdrome was taken over by the USAAF in July 1944 and used as a forward-base of operations for B-25 Mitchell bomber attacks against northern Italy and Southern France, in support ofOperation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France.
Known units assigned to the airfield were:
The units remained on Corsica until early 1945 when enemy targets became out of range of the Mitchells. The airfield was closed by the Americans on 25 January and dismantled after the war, and today there are little or no remains of it other than the remnants of its main runway and disturbed areas where the airfield once was.
This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
