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Ghriss Airport
Ghriss Airport
	IATA: MUW; ICAO: DAOV;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Mascara, Algeria
Location	Ghriss, Algeria
Elevation AMSL	1,686 ft / 514 m
Coordinates	35°12′28″N 000°08′50″E / 35.20778°N 0.14722°E
Map
	MUW Location of airport in Algeria
Runways
	Source:World Aero Data [1][usurped]

Ghriss Airport (IATA: MUW, ICAO: DAOV) is a civilian airport in Mascara Province, Algeria, located 5.0 km southwest of the town of Ghriss, Algeria.

World War II edit

During World War II, the facility was known as "Thiersville Airfield". It was a Twelfth Air Force base of operations during the North African Campaign used by the 60th Troop Carrier Group, which flew C-47 Skytrain transports from the airfield between May and June 1943.

Airlines	Destinations
Tassili Airlines	Algiers^[1]

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.

^ Liu, Jim. "Tassili Airlines adds new domestic routes in March 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 26 February 2020.