Lisle-en-Barrois Aerodrome

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Lisle-en-Barrois Aerodrome
Part of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
Located near: Lisle-en-Barrois, France
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Captain John A. Hambleton, 213th Aero Squadron with his SPAD XIII, Lisle-en-Barrois Aerodromem France. Hambleton was credited with three aerial victories in World War I and awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses.
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Lisle-en-Barrois Aerodrome
Coordinates 48°54′05″N005°08′11″E / 48.90139°N 5.13639°E / 48.90139; 5.13639
TypeCombat airfield
Site information
Controlled by Roundel of the United States (1918-1919).svg   Air Service, United States Army
ConditionAgricultural area
Site history
Built1918
In use1918–1919
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World War I
Garrison information
Garrison 3d Pursuit Group
United States First Army Air Service

Lisle-en-Barrois Aerodrome was a temporary World War I airfield in France. It was located on the plateau north of the commune of Lisle-en-Barrois, in the Meuse department in north-eastern France.

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Overview

In 1915, the French escadrille MS 37 stayed from 19 August to 16 October near the "ferme de Vaudoncourt", 1 mile north of lisle en Barrois.

A new airfield was built during summer 1918, initially for the French Air Service: Groupe de Combat no 12 and its four escadrilles SPA 3, SPA 26, SPA 67 and SPA 103 stayed from 9 to 19 September. As no other French unit is known to have stayed later, it can be assumed that the airfield was transferred to the Air Service, United States Army in the following days.

3d Pursuit Group headquarters arrived on 20 September 1918 with four squadrons (28th, 93rd, 103rd and 213th Aero Squadrons), flying missions for the US First Army during both the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. In support of the flying squadrons, the 2d Air Park had a flight of mechanics for repair of both aircraft and vehicles.

462nd Aero Squadron (construct.) arrived at the same time to improve the airfield installations, leaving on 6 October towards Parois Aerodrome, near Clermont en Argonne.

By 6 November, with the front moving to the west and north, the 3d Pursuit Group moved up to Foucaucourt Aerodrome, and Lisle-en-Barrois airfield was abandoned.

After the armistice, the airfield was returned to agricultural use. Today it is a series of cultivated fields located on the east side of the Départmental 2 (D2), north of Lisle-en-Barrois, with no indications of its wartime use.

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