Cercola Airfield

Cercola Airfield
Part of Twelfth Air Force
Coordinates	40°51′41.75″N 014°20′57.82″E / 40.8615972°N 14.3493944°E / 40.8615972; 14.3493944 (Approximate)
Type	Military Airfield
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built	1943
In use	1943-1944

Cercola Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, located approximately 2 km north of Cercola in the Province of Naples in the Italian region Campania.

It was an all-weather temporary field built by the

was also used for parking areas, as well as for dispersal sites, when it was available. In addition, tents were used for billeting and also for support facilities; an access road was built to the existing road infrastructure; a dump for supplies, ammunition, and gasoline drums, along with a drinkable water and minimal electrical grid for communications and station lighting.

Once completed it was turned over for use by the

on 1 November 1943, and remained at Cercola until 6 May 1944, when it moved to Pignataro Maggiore.

The

, also flying P-40s, which operated from the field until the end of March.

After the 324th moved out in May 1944 the airfield was dismantled. Today, there are no remaining traces of the airfield as the area around the town of Cercola has grown substantially since the war and is now part of the Naples urban area. The urban development has obliterated any trace of the airfield. It is unknown precisely where the airfield was actually located due to the changed landscape over the past 60 years.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

• Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
  ISBN 0-89201-092-4
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