Monte-de-Marson

Ladies/Gents:

looking to find the airfield in the area of this town in France used by the somewhat mysterious and stealth armed recee Luftwaffe unit FAGr 5 which was equipped with the Ju 290A.

looked on google map(s) and if it is there I must be blind...........no doubt

so my Euro friends can anyone help me with this search please

♪ Erich ♫

 

Just north of the town. Try this link:

Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, Aquitaine, France - Google Maps

 

that's correct Erich , the reason you didn't find it because of a typo it should be "Marsan"

The Germans built a large concrete runway there to host Fw-200 Condors and Ju-290s, they also intended to use it for a stealh Jaeger facility airfield but it was bombed by the Amercans in 1944 and abandonned. The French restored the concrete runway in 1945 and used it as a test base for protypes.

 

thanks guys most appreciated.............wonder if there are any interesting relics still to be found ..... ? probably not

 

well, I bet they are. The same was said about Bricy. They have recently considered having larger runways for the new Hercules cargo planes and took satelite pictures (at Bricy) and discovered not less than 12.000 metal parts just on the worksite, not to mention what was around . This goes from shells, to plane relics, bullets, nails , wrecks , etc.... There is even a small museum there.

 

so Skip the question is is there anyone allowed to thumb through the area with bucket and small trowel in hand or is this strictly verboten ?

wonder what they have found at Marsan if anything exists or was it plowed bent and burned or hauled off forever. this was really the only spot for the Ju 290A's of FAGr 5 as the existing Ju's became part of KG 100 ? or was it 200's fleet of espinoge wonders, FAGr 5 then dwindeled down to a stealth unit of 3-4 Ar 234's for continued recon duties in 1945

 

Erich, just a few years ago it was still an active base of the Armée de l'air. The same thing stopped me from visiting what I thought would be the "ruins of StaLag IIB" -- the base is an active Polish Army installation.

Cheers

BW

 

BW yes tried to get on the base outside of Oberammergau back in 1980 but several armed US servicemen decided to show up in my face and even when I presented my card and ID, they smiled and said turn around. I know for a fact there are still guarded secrets in those bunkers. there is a host of buried Luftwaffe jet treasures underground, yet it maybe all bundled up tested and then scrapped for all I know but then again .........

 

Bricy is an active Air Base (BA-123) mostly Transport (with 1/61 Touraine, 2/61 Franche Comté and 3/61 Poitou). It is also the home of CPA 10 the Air Para Commandos that are a part of the COS (kind of like USSOCOM).

So needless to say the area is a little bit monitored

 

I have always wondered about that. I have several reports of crashed Kondors but not the slightest relic or even a pinpointed crash site. It seems like they were entirely taken to recycling by the Bergungkommandos. As to those left behind in 1944, I have a picture of a Greif "found" at Chateaudun by the allies, but again it vanished almost immediately...

 

Bricy Air Base after allied bombings in 1944

 

Bricy is near me not far from Orleans. I have vistied the old airfield in Mont de Marsan too but there is not much left and it's very overgrown.