Mascara Airfield

Mascara Airfield
Part of Twelfth Air Force
Site information
Type	Military airfield
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Location
Coordinates	35°22′57.48″N000°07′57.50″E / 35.3826333°N 0.1326389°E / 35.3826333; 0.1326389
Site history
Built	1942
In use	1942-1943

Mascara Airfield

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Location of Mascara Airfield, Algeria

Mascara Airfield is an abandoned military airfield and later civilian airport in Algeria, located in the southwestern suburbs of Mascara.

During World War II it was used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force during the North African Campaign against the German Afrika Korps.

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.