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Saint-Leu Airfield
Saint-Leu Airfield;
Part of Twelfth Air Force
Coordinates	35°48′21.89″N 000°16′05.42″W / 35.8060806°N 0.2681722°W
Type	Military airfield
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built	1942
In use	1942-1943

Saint-Leu Airfield was a military airfield in Algeria, near the city of Bettioua, about 45 km northeast of Oran.

Saint-Leu Airfield

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Location of Saint-Leu Airfield, Algeria

During World War II it was used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force 319th Bombardment Group during the North African Campaign against the German Afrika Korps. The 319th flew B-26 Marauder medium bombers from the airfield between 11 and 18 November 1942.^[1]

References edit

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.
Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.