Kurilovec je bil erodrom z travnatum il zemlenum pistum odnosno podlogum.Betonerajnu se pristupa tek po kapitulacije Italije 1943..I dok se to delalo čisto sumlam da je promet stal,pa ni to posel ko da bi dopelal mikser i hitil deku na vikendice.Osim toga delalo se na ruke (tri put na suvo,tri put na mokro).A kud je promet tekel ak je tekel,nemam pojma.Pitonerke,kak je mi v selu zovemo,su delali Talijani a Švabi su je ranili kak golube.Stari mi je povedal da f selu ni ostal ni jen maček,ovi su se pojeli,kak termiti,i bažulovo lišče su jeli.Položaj pitonerki bi bil;IGK i AKM,bile su spojene pri sadašnemu semišču.Neznam jel i Pista ZTZ tal toga eroderoma,il teroga drugoga s toga vremena,ali ima isti „trade mark“,betonerane rubnake i širinu.Osim piste Švabi su delali i ceste tak je i napravlena Fabijančićeva do mosta na Ramiščaku,a i most sigurno,i dale jen tal po polu.Planerali su se spojiti ovem putem na Vukovinu il Mraclin.Taj su tal mam po ratu raskopali ovi prek čije su zemle delali.Još jed detal,iza Vuzipovičevoga je bila nekakova šumica tere sad ni a otpriliker de je sad rukometno igrališče.Nigde ne piše kak je erodrom bil veliki,il mali, odnosno površina. Navek je označen ko uzletište,aerodrom,airfield a nis nigde videl airport il air depot. Još par tehničke podatkov; -
Agram-Gorica
(Zagreb – Velika Gorica, Kurilovec) – Croatia (15.3 km SE of Zagreb) (45 42 00 N – 16 05 25 E)
Description and History
Airfield with a take-off/landing run of 1,200 yds. (1,097 meters) until summer 1944 when the Luftwaffe began heavy construction. Facilities included hangar and workshop buildings, barracks, dispersal areas and fuel and ammunition storage. Used by the Royal Yugoslav Air Force before the war. Attacked by the Luftwaffe on 6 April 1941 and all 18 reconnaissance biplanes (Breguet and Potez) were destroyed. Relatively inactive until the end of 1942 and did not warrant its own Luftwaffe station command until April 1944. Thereafter, repeatedly attacked by Balkan Air Force fighters and fighter-bombers to the end of the war.
Station Units
Fl.H.Kdtr. E 32/VI (04.44 – 05.44); Fl.H.Kdtr. E(v) 225/XVII (05.44 – 05.45).
Air Units
15.(kroat.)/KG 53 (11.42 – 12.43); 13./SG 151 (01.44 – 04.44); NSGr. 7 (1944-45); various Croatian Air Force units.
© by Henry L. deZeng IV (Work in Progress). (1st Draft 2008)
References
1) Air Ministry A.I.2.(B) airfield lists and profiles prepared by the Air Ministry Air Intelligence Directorate (hundreds of linear feet of documentation currently archived at the British National Archives (London), the U.S. National Archives (Washington) and the USAF Historical Research Agency (Maxwell AFB, Alabama).
2) Various, scattered references regarding airfields, station commands and air unit locations gleaned from the surviving Luftwaffe records at the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau, and microfilmed by the U.S. National Archives.
3) Hammel, Eric. Air War Europa – Chronology: America’s Air War Against Germany in Europe and North Africa 1942-1945. Pacifica (CA): Pacifica Press, 1994
4) Mattiello, Gianfranco. Fliegerhorstkommandanturen und Flugplätze der deutschen Luftwaffe 1935-1945. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 2000.
5) Middlebrook, Martin and Chris Everitt. The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book, 1939-1945. London: Penguin Books, 1990
6)Ries, Karl and Wolfgang Dierich. Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe: Planskizzen 1935-1945. Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag, 1993.
7) Internet: numerous web sites in a variety of European languages offer additional information on individual airfields.
http://www.wiki.luftwaffedata.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Agram-Gorica-
Agram-Lucko
(Zagreb-Lučko, Gornji Stupnik) – Croatia (10 km SW of Zagreb) (45 46 05 N – 15 51 15 E)
Description and History
Landing ground with a grass take-off/landing run of 1,650 yds. (1,509 meters). Infrastructure consisted of 1 small hangar, a few workshop buildings, some barrack-type huts for accommodations and 12 medium shelters for aircraft. More infrastructure was added during 1944. Strafed by 5 P-38 Lightnings returning from Austria on 12 April – 2 Do 17s, 1 Ju 87 and 1 W 34 destroyed. Attacked on 28 May – 4 a/c destroyed on the ground and an unknown number of casualties. On 29 May, 15 P-38 Lightnings strafed Lučko destroying 5 more a/c.
Station Units
Fl.H.Kdtr. E 14/VI (01.44 – 05.44); Fl.H.Kdtr. E(v) 215/XVII (05.44 – 05.45).
Air Units
15.(kroat.)/KG 53 (11.42 – 12.43); Nahaufkl.St. Kroatien; (kroat.) I. Jägergruppe (1944-45); (kroat.) I. Kampfgruppe (1944-45).
© by Henry L. deZeng IV (Work in Progress).(1st Draft 2008)
References
1) Air Ministry A.I.2.(B) airfield lists and profiles prepared by the Air Ministry Air Intelligence Directorate (hundreds of linear feet of documentation currently archived at the British National Archives (London), the U.S. National Archives (Washington) and the USAF Historical Research Agency (Maxwell AFB, Alabama).
2) Various, scattered references regarding airfields, station commands and air unit locations gleaned from the surviving Luftwaffe records at the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau, and microfilmed by the U.S. National Archives.
3) Hammel, Eric. Air War Europa – Chronology: America’s Air War Against Germany in Europe and North Africa 1942-1945. Pacifica (CA): Pacifica Press, 1994
4) Mattiello, Gianfranco. Fliegerhorstkommandanturen und Flugplätze der deutschen Luftwaffe 1935-1945. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 2000.
5) Middlebrook, Martin and Chris Everitt. The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book, 1939-1945. London: Penguin Books, 1990
6)Ries, Karl and Wolfgang Dierich. Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe: Planskizzen 1935-1945. Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag, 1993.
7) Internet: numerous web sites in a variety of European languages offer additional information on individual airfields.
http://www.wiki.luftwaffedata.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Agram-Lucko-
Agram-Pleso
(Zagreb-Pleso) – Croatia (11 km SE of Zagreb) (45 44 30 N – 16 04 20 E)
Description and History
Airfield with a 2,000 yd. (1,829 meters) concrete runway constructed during 1943-44.
Facilities included 3 large hangar/workshop buildings, barracks, extensive dispersal areas, fuel and munitions storage.
Classified as an unpaved auxiliary airfield prior to 1943.
The Luftwaffe began major construction work at Pleso in summer 1943, assigned a station command in December 1943 and aircraft began using it again in spring 1944.
It was a primary refueling and layover stop for transport a/c transiting through the Balkans during 1944-45.
Station Units
Fl.H.Kdtr. E 37/VI (12.43 – 05.44); Fl.H.Kdtr. E(v) 209/XVII (05.44 – 05.45).
Air Units
I./S.G. 2 (05.44); NSGr. 7 (06.44 – c.12.44).
© by Henry L. deZeng IV (Work in Progress).(1st Draft 2008)
References
1) Air Ministry A.I.2.(B) airfield lists and profiles prepared by the Air Ministry Air Intelligence Directorate (hundreds of linear feet of documentation currently archived at the British National Archives (London), the U.S. National Archives (Washington) and the USAF Historical Research Agency (Maxwell AFB, Alabama).
2) Various, scattered references regarding airfields, station commands and air unit locations gleaned from the surviving Luftwaffe records at the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau, and microfilmed by the U.S. National Archives.
3) Hammel, Eric. Air War Europa – Chronology: America’s Air War Against Germany in Europe and North Africa 1942-1945. Pacifica (CA): Pacifica Press, 1994
4) Mattiello, Gianfranco. Fliegerhorstkommandanturen und Flugplätze der deutschen Luftwaffe 1935-1945. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 2000.
5) Middlebrook, Martin and Chris Everitt. The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book, 1939-1945. London: Penguin Books, 1990
6)Ries, Karl and Wolfgang Dierich. Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe: Planskizzen 1935-1945. Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag, 1993.
7) Internet: numerous web sites in a variety of European languages offer additional information on individual airfields
http://www.wiki.luftwaffedata.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Agram-Pleso-
Agram-Stadt
(Zagreb-City, Zagreb-Borongaj) – Capital of Croatia. Airfield is 5 km due E of the city center. (45 48 40 N – 16 02 15 E).
Description and History
Airfield with a take-off/landing run of 1,100 yds. (1,006 meters). Constructed in 1925-26 as a joint military-civil airfield, Borongaj had extensive facilities including 8 hangars, 5 workshops, underground fuel storage, 88 munitions storage huts, admin buildings and barracks.
Bombed by 28 B-17s on 22 February 1944 – 1 a/c destroyed, 5 wounded and the airfield damaged; most of the bombs fell in residential areas near the airfield causing heavy losses (228 homes uninhabitable). Hit again on 12 April by B-24s – more than a dozen German and Croatian a/c destroyed and damaged, 2 hangars destroyed and the airfield’s workshops, barracks and runway area heavily damaged.
Attacked by heavy bombers on 30 May – 3 Croatian a/c destroyed and 1 German and 6 Croatian a/c damaged. Strafed on 26 June – 4 a/c shot up and damaged.
Allied a/c dropped 300 heavy bombs and 100 fragmentation bombs on the airfield on 30 June but most fell outside the perimeter.
An estimated 120 B-24s bombed the city and airfield on 7 July – 6 a/c destroyed, 2 more severely damaged, a hangar, several buildings, the fuel storage dump and workshop equipment destroyed, and 30 craters put the runway temporarily out of service.
Station Units
Fl.H.Kdtr. E 19/IV (1941); Fl.H.Kdtr. E 24/VI (1941 – 10.42); Fl.H.Kdtr. A 201/XVII (10.42 – 04.44); Fl.H.Kdtr. A(o) 111/XVII (05.44 – 04.45).
Air Units
2.(H)/Aufkl.Gr. 13 (04.41); FFS A/B 123 (05.41 – 05.43); 15.(kroat.)/KG 53 (11.42 – 12.43); elements of St.G. 151 (1943); elements of S.G. 151 (1943-44); elements of NSGr. 7; San.Flugbereitschaft 5; elements of Luftbeobachtungsstaffel 7; numerous Croatian Air Force units.
© by Henry L. deZeng IV (Work in Progress). (1st Draft 2008)
References
1) Air Ministry A.I.2.(B) airfield lists and profiles prepared by the Air Ministry Air Intelligence Directorate (hundreds of linear feet of documentation currently archived at the British National Archives (London), the U.S. National Archives (Washington) and the USAF Historical Research Agency (Maxwell AFB, Alabama).
2) Various, scattered references regarding airfields, station commands and air unit locations gleaned from the surviving Luftwaffe records at the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau, and microfilmed by the U.S. National Archives.
3) Hammel, Eric. Air War Europa – Chronology: America’s Air War Against Germany in Europe and North Africa 1942-1945. Pacifica (CA): Pacifica Press, 1994
4) Mattiello, Gianfranco. Fliegerhorstkommandanturen und Flugplätze der deutschen Luftwaffe 1935-1945. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 2000.
5) Middlebrook, Martin and Chris Everitt. The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book, 1939-1945. London: Penguin Books, 1990
6)Ries, Karl and Wolfgang Dierich. Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe: Planskizzen 1935-1945. Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag, 1993.
7) Internet: numerous web sites in a variety of European languages offer additional information on individual airfields.
http://www.wiki.luftwaffedata.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Agram-Stadt