Toul-Croix de Metz Airfield
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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.
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 |
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 |
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.