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Lucius D. Clay Kaserne

Lucius D. Clay Kaserne
Wiesbaden Army Airfield
Wiesbaden Air Base
Advanced Landing Ground Y-80
Fliegerhorst Wiesbaden
Located in Wiesbaden, Germany
Wiesbaden Army Airfield.jpg
Wiesbaden AAF is located in Germany
Wiesbaden AAF
Wiesbaden AAF
Coordinates 50°02′58″N 08°19′28″E / 50.04944°N 8.32444°E / 50.04944; 8.32444Coordinates: 50°02′58″N 08°19′28″E / 50.04944°N 8.32444°E / 50.04944; 8.32444
Type Military airfield
Site information
Owner  United States with authority from  Germany
Controlled by Emblem of the United States Department of the Army.svgUnited States Army (1976–Present)
Roundel of the USAF.svg United States Air Force (1947–1975)
US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg  United States Army Air Forces (1945–1947)
Balkenkreuz.svg  Luftwaffe (1936–1945)
Site history
Built 1929 (Airfield)
In use 1929–1976 (Airfield) – Present
Garrison information
Past
commanders
Colonel David H. Carstens
Garrison US Army Garrison Wiesbaden

Lucius D. Clay Kaserne (formerly Wiesbaden Army Airfield or WAAF) (IATA: WIEICAO: ETOU) is a US military complex located southeast of the city of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. It was selected to be the headquarters of the United States Army Europe after the closure of Heidelberg, Germany, United States Army in Europe (USAREUR), on 28 September 1945, in large part due to its proximity to Frankfurt am Main, where the U.S. Seventh Army was headquartered.

It currently hosts:

The land on which the airfield stands was originally the Wiesbaden track for horse races built in 1910. In 1929 it was converted into an airfield and in 1936 the German Luftwaffe took over the base. One unit stationed there was Jagdgruppe 50, a fighter group of Messerschmitt Bf 109s. On 17 August 1943 the unit intercepted American bombers taking part in the ill-fated Regensburg Strike targeting the Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg and the ball bearing plants in Schweinfurt. Alfred Grislawski, a German Luftwaffe fighter ace, took part in that mission.

The airfield was captured when the U.S. 80th Infantry Division took Wiesbaden on 28 March 1945. Subsequently the U.S. Army Air Force gave the base the temporary designation Y-80 and used it for its operations in Germany. USAAF/USAFE units assigned to Wiesbaden AB or Lindsey Air Station include:


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