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Medenine Airfield is an abandoned military airfield in Tunisia , which was located just to the west of Medenine, 46 km N of Tataouine; 430 km south-southeast of Tunis .
History [ edit ]
Medenine Airfield was a French Air Force (French : Armée de l'Air World War II . After the Fall of France in June 1940, it was briefly used by the Vichy French Air Force (French : Armée de l'air de Vichy Case Anton , the military occupation of Vichy France carried out by Germany and Italy, it was taken over by the German Luftwaffe .
During both the American West African Campaign and British Western Desert Campaign , the airfield was attacked repeatedly by elements of the American Twelfth and Ninth Air Forces , along with the British Royal Air Force beginning in late January 1943 with B-24 Liberator heavy bombers, and was strafed with P-40 Warhawk fighter-bombers. The airfield was seized by New Zealand Commonwealth ground forces during March 1943.[1]
It was then repaired by Royal Engineers and placed back into operational service. With the end of combat in Tunisia during the summer or 1943, the airfield was dismantled and abandoned. Today the remains of the main runway is visible on aerial photography, and perhaps some taxiways.[2] [3]
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French Air Force/Luftwaffe
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United States Army Air Forces (Ninth Air Force)[2]
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public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
^ a b 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 .
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