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R-19, Nordhausen ALG Location needed

I am looking for the location of R-19 advanced landing ground (ALG) at Nordhausen, Germany. I have the history and daily diaries of the 438th Troop Carrier Group for WWII. There is no mention of the actual location of the ALG other than they went to R-19 at Nordhausen to ferry french forced laborers. I have looked up the Airfield number in the "U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V-E Day" report but there is only the city location mentioned. Does anyone have Google map coordinates for this ALG? Does anyone know where I could find information that would give me the physical location (longitude/latitude) of this airfield? There is a glider field there today but I don't know if that is the same airfield.
Thanks for your help.
I was not sure if this should go in Commands,bases, and stations  or in TC.  Were ALG stations?

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Re:R-19, Nordhausen ALG Location needed (permalink)
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STATIONS
Baer Field -  1 Jun 1943;
Sedalia AAF - 11 June 1943
Laurinburg-Maxton AAF -  October 1943
Baer Field,(Indiana) -  1 Jun 1943;
RAF Welford (England) -  February 1944  (51°28'3"N / 1°23'59"W)
Greenham Commons (England) - March 1944 (51°22'38"N / 1°17'14"W)
Prosnes  (France) Aérodrome de Reims-Prunay - February 1945 (49°12'30"N / 4°9'16"E)
Amiens / Glisy (France)  Aérodrome d'Amiens-Glisy -  May - 3 August 1945 (49°52'19"N / 2°22'54"E)
Baer AAF - 16 Sepember 1945
 
Since you mentioned Nordhausen only one airfield their that could support C-47's (most R numbers were ex Luftwaffe airfields)
 
Flugplatz Nordhausen (51°29'32"N / 10°49'52"E)
 
http://www.nva-flieger.de/tl/index.php/nva-hs-plaetze/nordhausen.html
http://www.mil-airfields.de/de/nordhausen.htm
http://www.weltbild.de/3/14870631-1/buch/fliegerhorst-und-luft-nachrichten-schule-1-nordhausen-1935.html
btw Ichstadt was R20
 
 

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Terveun,  Thank you so much.  I hd found the first link but could not tell what all those maps meant and could not find a date.  The glider field is definitely at the southern side of Nordhausen.  Also thanks for letting me know that the ALG are stations.  I should have put this in that category but I believe Scott will move it. Why did you list the other stations?  Are those all the 438 stations.  I know that the 438th was at all the ones you listed in Europe.   I know my dad was at Laurinburg-Maxton AAF (he was a C-47 pilot) for Project Midnight. and I think he was at Baer I need to look it up again. I was looking at Nordhausen  because after VE day Lt. Col. Robert Gates told me that they were picking up French Laborers from Nordhausen and retuning them to Paris.  I am traveling to Nordhausen in April so I wanted to make sure I have the right field.  Thanks so much.

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The first list is the stations the 438th TCG was stationed at
 
     From what I understand, Norhausen was a major concentration camp and was used to build V-2 rockets.  A lot of scientists were shipped out befor the russions occupied this area
 
     Most of the French AGL used PSP matting used with fighter strips, but with Germany, the Americans, British & French used the ex-Luftwaffe fields and gave them the R numbers.  While a C-47 can used a grass strip, it was safer plus the aircraft could carrier heavier loads, and that is why solid, perminant fields.  Norhausen was one of those fields that was never really bombered so it makes sense that it would be the field you are looking for.
 
 

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Nordhausen / Mittelwerk / Peenemünde / Mittelbau-Dora: connection
As Dave mentioned this is where V-2 rocket production moved underground as the Allies gained air superiority and they were no longer safe above ground. Mittelbau-Dora was a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. It may have been forced laborers from this works that your father was evacuating. This was not a very pleasant place to put it mildly, few survived.    
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/n/nordhausen/index.shtml
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/mittelwerk.htm
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Yes they were evacuating French Laborers from mettelwerk.  They landed at Nordhausen R-19 to evacuate, that was why I wanted to know exactly where it was located in Nordhausen.    More people died from making the V2 than the V2 killed.  20,000+ forced laborers died and 10,000 died from the bomb.  I talked to a veteran, Lennie Williams, who was in my dads group and he told me how the French laborers could barely walk or stand and when they got them to the airfield just outside Paris the French military band was playing the French Anthem "La Marseillaise"and the Frenchmen were trying to stand and salute. Lennie said it broke his heart to see it. Col. Gates told me that the first time they brought in the French laborers to the airfield near Paris Charles de Gaule was there and he did not want Gen. de Gaule to kiss him but he did anyway.  It was funny the way Gates told the story.


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Terveurn,  Thank you for confirming the location of the airfield.  Am I confusing the term?  Is it advanced ground landing or advanced landing ground?  Of course I could look that up and not waist your time. I do thank you again though for the confirmation of R-19.
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Patricia

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WWII 88/438/53/IX and 78/435/53/IX
Power/Glider Pilot (Ardennes-Bastogne, Wesel-BGC, CE)
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