United States Constabulary Air Force

1946 -1952
Germany

Wiesbaden-Biebrich Airfield

Fritzlar Kaserne Airfield
  519th F.A. BN.  Baumholder


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Fritzlar Kaserne Airfield
 


Control Tower

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Fritzlar Kaserne had their own Air Force says William Tevington.
The Air Field had L-4's, L-5's and L-23's.
Those of us at Fritzlar in early 1947 remember the P-47's on the Airfield.

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Memories by Cpl. Phil Sandoval
I checked the radios to make sure that there was air to ground communication. The planes were primarily for reconnaissance but occasionally, when the unit was out in the field on maneuvers, they were used to simulate bombing runs over other troops that were on the field also. The pilot, a young 1st Lt., asked me if I had flown on that type of aircraft, I said "NO", that I had never been on one of those small planes.  He said, "Well, I'll take you for a ride".   He flew his plane over the troops and remarked, "Well, I guess we wiped out that unit".  We didn't drop anything of course, just flew over them.  After he finished his mission, he said, "Well now I'm going to really give you a ride".  We flew over mountainous country and we flew close to the trees and pretended we were stalling.  He did all kinds of maneuvers with the plane and generally scared the hell out of me.  Once we landed, we taxied over to the tents and after I got off and I made a run to the back of the tents and threw my guts out.  He laughed and kidded me and said we'd have to go again some other time.  I never took him up on it.  Out in the field, they didn't have real landing fields, they landed on grassy meadows or wherever they could. This young pilot used to volunteer to find landing strips.  He'd fly low over what he thought might be a good strip and then land on it.  He was a real hot dog. 
 I do remember that the cargo planes used for the air lift to Berlin, when the Russians denied us entry by the autobahn in '48 & '49, would land there when Berlin was socked in with fog.  Their crews would eat and sleep there until the fog lifted in Berlin. Didn't happen too often but it did happen.

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"Stinson L-5 Sentinel"
Nick named "The Flying Jeep"
The above United States Constabulary Air Craft was used for observation of targets for the artillery to fire at.
It also was used to watch enemy movements. This picture was taken in 1949. In the picture the Air Craft had landed in a sugar beet field in Germany.
 I have seen it land on the Auto-Bahn also. Our main base was called the Burg as it was like a castle on the top of the hill and was in Sonthofen, in the Batavian Alps. We had a small air field and hanger for our Air Craft. The pilot was 1st LT. Brown.
I was in the 519th Field Artillery Battalion 3 years, six month's and 22 days. Later we moved to Babenhausen Germany and they built a special run way for several observation planes.
 AL

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HQ 1st Constabulary Brigade
Wiesbaden-Biebrich Airfield
1947




 (L-R) S-Sgt Gruelick (Mechanic), T-5 Wm Hutchins (Driver) & T-4 Charles Hartl (Clerk)



T-Sgt E.L.Donelson

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