List of North African airfields during World War II explained

This is a partial list of British Landing Grounds (LG) In North Africa, used during World War II. There are over 250 known. Not all of these were active airfields; some were depots, some were repair stations, and some were decoys. Some are still in use, and some were moved and upgraded by Americans to handle heavy bombers.

LG-176 through LG-186 were also numbered LG 1 through 10).

Landing grounds

LG-number	Name	German name	Coordinate	Alternate coordinates	Notes
LG-001	Buq Buq
LG-002	Sidi Barrani
LG-003	Sidi Barrani Satellite
LG-004	Sidi Barrani West
LG-005	X-LG
LG-006	Y-LG
LG-007	Z-LG (Matruh West)	Bir El Astas			^[1]
LG-008	Mersa Matruh
LG-009	Bir Koriayim
LG-010	Gerawala
LG-011	Qasaba
LG-012	Sidi Haneish North	Haggag el Quasaba East
LG-013	Sidi Haneish South	Zimlet El Thalaba
LG-014	Maaten Bagush	Zawyet Harun			^[2]
LG-015	Maaten Bagush satellite Bir Zimla?	Bir Abu Smeit			^[3]
LG-016	Fuka satellite (Fukah)	Abu Haggag			^[4]
LG-017	Fuka Main
LG-018	Fuka South
LG-019	Fuka East
LG-020	Qotafiyah I	Sanyet Turbiya			^[5]
LG-021	Qotafiyah III
LG-022	Daba Satellite
LG-023	Turbiya
LG-024	Daba South
LG-025	Sidi Abdel Rahman
LG-026	El Imayid
LG-027	El Hamman
LG-028	Burg el Arab
LG-029	Amiriya
LG-030	Amiriya Satellite
LG-031	Ikingi
LG-032
LG-033	Aboukir North
LG-034	Aboukir
LG-035	Bir Hooker
LG-036	Khatbara
LG-037	El Hamman South
LG-038	El Hamman East
LG-039	Burgh El Arab South
LG-040	Bahig South
LG-041	Bahig East
LG-042	El Naheidat
LG-043	Bir Kenayis
LG-044	Wadi Natrun ?
LG-045	Landing Ground 45
LG-046	Landing Ground 46
LG-047	Landing Ground 47
LG-048	Landing Ground 48
LG-049	Landing Ground 49
LG-050	Landing Ground 50
LG-051	Landing Ground 51
LG-052	Landing Ground 52
LG-053	Landing Ground 53
LG-054	Landing Ground 54
LG-055	Landing Ground 55
LG-056	Landing Ground 56
LG-057	Landing Ground 57
LG-058	Landing Ground 58
LG-059	Landing Ground 59
LG-060	Landing Ground 60	Bir el Quseir			^[6]
LG-061	Landing Ground 61
LG-062	Landing Ground 62
LG-063	Landing Ground 63
LG-064	Landing Ground 64
LG-065	Landing Ground 65
LG-066	Siwa North
LG-067	Siwa Town
LG-068	Bagush Waterloo	Abar-Nimeir			^[7]
LG-069	Bir Basur
LG-070	Landing Ground 70
LG-071	Landing Ground 71
LG-072	Landing Ground 72
LG-073	Bir Fuad
LG-074	Landing Ground 74
LG-075	Landing Ground 75
LG-076	Landing Ground 76	Bir el malla			^[8]
LG-077	Landing Ground 77
LG-078	Landing Ground 78
LG-079	Landing Ground 79
LG-080	Landing ground 80
LG-081	Landing Ground 81
LG-082	Landing Ground 82
LG-083	Landing Ground 83
LG-084	Landing Ground 84
LG-085	Landing Ground 85
LG-086	Landing Ground 86	Bir Abu Ogos II			^[9]
LG-087	Landing Ground 87
LG-088	Landing Ground 88
LG-089	Landing Ground 89
LG-090	Landing Ground 90
LG-091	Landing Ground 91
LG-092	Landing Ground 92
LG-093	Landing Ground 93
LG-094	Landing Ground 94
LG-095	Landing Ground 95 Ikingi
LG-096	Landing Ground 96 not used
LG-097	Landing Ground 97
LG-098	Landing Ground 98
LG-099	Landing Ground 99
LG-100	Wadi Natrun	Wadi El Natrun
LG-101	Landing Ground 101	Haggag el Quasaba west
LG-102	Landing Ground 102	Abar El Afan
LG-103	Landing Ground 103
LG-104	Qotafiyah II	Sanyet El Qutaifiya			^[10]
LG-105	El Daba
LG-106	Landing Ground 106
LG-107	Giarabub
LG-108	Giarabub No. 2
LG-109	Landing Ground 109
LG-110	Landing Ground 110
LG-111	Landing Ground 111	Bir umm Gilwakh			^[11]
LG-112	Landing Ground 112
LG-113	Landing Ground 113
LG-114	Landing Ground 114 not used
LG-115	Landing Ground 115
LG-116	Landing Ground 116
LG-117	Landing Ground 117	Bir Abu Sheheima			^[12]
LG-118	El Thalata
LG-119	Landing Ground 119
LG-120	Landing Ground 120
LG-121	Landing Ground 121
LG-122	Landing Ground 122
LG-123	Maddelena III
LG-124	Maddelena Esc Scegga
LG-125	Landing Ground 125
LG-126	Landing Ground 126
LG-127	Landing Ground 127
LG-128	Landing Ground 128
LG-129	Landing Ground 129 not used
LG-130	Landing Ground 130
LG-131	Landing Ground 131
LG-132	Landing Ground 132	Gasr el Abid			^[13]
LG-133	Landing Ground 133
LG-134	Landing Ground 134
LG-135	Landing Ground 135
LG-136	Landing Ground 136
LG-137	Landing Ground 137
LG-138	Landing Ground 138
LG-139	Gambut No.1 Main	Gambut			^[14]
LG-140	Bir El Baheira 1
LG-141	Gasr el Arid
LG-142	Gambut No.2
LG-143	Gambut No.3
LG-144	El Adem No. 1
LG-145	Tobruk No. 2/El Gubbi East
LG-146	Tobruk No. 3/El Gubbi West
LG-147	Bu Amud	Bu Amud
LG-148	Sidi Azeiz Airfield	Sidi Azeis
LG-149	Gazala No.1
LG-150	Gazala No.2
LG-151	Landing Ground 151
LG-152	Gazala No.3
LG-153	Sidi Rezegh
LG-154	Landing Ground 154
LG-155	Landing Ground 155
LG-156	Gambut No.4 Comms
LG-157	El Adem No2
LG-158	Gambut No.6
LG-159	Gambut No.5
LG-160	Landing Ground 160
LG-161	Baltet El Atasc
LG-162	Landing Ground 162
LG-163	Landing Ground 163
LG-164	Sidi Aziez No.2 West
LG-165	Landing Ground 165
LG-166	Landing Ground 166
LG-167	Bir El Baheira 2
LG-170	Bir El Gobi Gubbi?
LG-171	Landing Ground 171
LG-172	Landing Ground 172
LG-173	Landing Ground 173
LG-174	Landing Ground 174
LG-175	Landing Ground 175
LG-176	Landing Ground 176 LG1
LG-177	Landing Ground 177 LG2
LG-178	Landing Ground 178 LG3
LG-179	Landing Ground 179 LG4
LG-180	El Maezil LG5
LG-181	Bir Dacar LG6
LG-182	Landing Ground 182 LG7
LG-183	Landing Ground 183 LG7 new
LG-184	Landing Ground 184 LG8
LG-185	Landing Ground 185 LG9
LG-186	Landing Ground 186 LG10
LG-201	El Gamil
LG-202	El Cap
LG-203	Ballah
LG-204	Ismailia
LG-205	Abu Sueir
LG-207	El Qassasin				^[15]
LG-208	Bilbeis
LG-209	Deversoir
LG-210	El Firdam
LG-211	Fayid
LG-212	Kasfareet
LG-213	Kabrit
LG-214	Shandur	Shallufa
LG-215	Shallufa
LG-216	Suez
LG-217	Suez Road No. 4
LG-218	Heliopolis
LG-219	Matariyah AKA Payne
LG-220	El Khanka
LG-221	Helwan
LG-222	Fayoum Road Kilo 17
LG-223	El Rus Wasta	El Rus			^[16]
LG-224	Cairo West Air Base Kilo 26^[17]	Gebel el mansuriya			^[18]
LG-225	El Teiriya
LG-226	Gianaclis
LG-227	Maryut
LG-228	Nekhl
LG-229	Idku
LG-230	Ras Gharib
LG-231	Hurghada Abu Mingar
LG-233	Luxor	Luxor			^[19]
LG-234	Abu Zenima
LG-235	HMS Grebe
LG-236	El Arish
LG-237	Landing Ground 237 Kilo 40
LG-238	Ras El Bar	El Malaqa			^[20]
LG-239	Safaga new
LG-240	Abu Zenima South
LG-241	Zafarana
LG-242	Landing ground 242
LG-243	Samalut
LG-245	Almaza
LG-246	Edfu
LG-247	El-Tor
LG-248	Assiut
LG-249	Aswan	Assuan			^[21]
LG-250	not used
LG-251	Shalufa Satellite

Other landing grounds

Evidently assigned by other commands:

• • • Bir Terfawi Eight Bells Hills LG 416 Deir ez-Zor Airport
• LG 426 Tadmur Airport
• LG 500 ?
• LG 598 Kufra west
• Big Carin

Airfields in Palestine Mandate

• • • Muqeible Airfield RAF St Jean RAF Aqir now Tel Nof Israeli Air Force Base
• RAF Ein Shemer 32.4369°N 35.0006°W now Ein Shemer Airfield
• RAF Gaza ??
  • Herzliya Airport RAF Haifa now Haifa Airport
• RAF Lydda now Ben Gurion International Airport
  • RAF Petah Tiqva 32.0667°N 34.9333°W now Kfar Sirkin Airfield RAF Qastina Now Hatzor Israeli Air Force Base
• RAF Ramat David now Ramat David Israeli Air Force Base
• RAF Ramleh 31.9169°N 34.8731°W
• RAF Netanya Also known as Kfar Hayim??
• Sde Dov Airport 32.1108°N 34.7794°W
• RAF Beit Daras,
• RAF El Bassa ??, Betzet
• RAF Machanaim, Ben Ya'akov Airport
• RAF Magiddo, Megiddo Airport
• RAF Amman,
• RAF Mafraq,
• RAF Zerqa 32.1061°N 36.16°W, now Dawson's Field

See also

• Desert Air Force
• Advanced Landing Ground
• List of former Royal Air Force stations
• List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
• Western Desert Campaign
• Operation Crusader
• First Battle of El Alamein
• Frontier Wire (Libya)
• Long Range Desert Group
• Tragedy at Kufra

References

• RAF Squadrons by C.G. Jefford page 133
• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/north_africa/

External links

• http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/guests/jwbj/jwb1.htm
• http://www.211squadron.org/
• Libya-http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Libya/index.html
• Egypt-http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/index.html
• http://www.suezveteransassociation.org.uk/cz-map.html
• http://113squadron.com/id35.htm

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bir el Astas Flugplatz 1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121004092309/http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Bir%20el%20Astas%20Flugplatz%201.html . 2012-10-04 .
2. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Zawyet%20Harun%20Flugplatz%201.html
3. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Bir%20Abu%20Smeit%20Flugplatz%201.html
4. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Abu%20Haggag%20Flugplatz%201.html
5. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Sanyet%20Turbiya%20Flugplatz%201.html
6. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Bir%20el%20Quseir%20Flugplatz%201.html
7. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/AbarNimeir%20Flugplatz%201.html
8. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Bir%20el%20Malla%20Flugplatze%201.html
9. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Bir%20Abu%20Ogos%20Flugplatz%20II%201.html
10. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Sanyet%20el%20Qutaifiya%20Flugplatz%201.html
11. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Bir%20Umm%20Gilwakh%20Flugplatz%201.html
12. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Bir%20Abu%20Sheheima%20Militarflugplatz%202.html
13. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Gasr%20el%20Abid%20Landeplatze%201.html
14. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306011836/http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Libya/slides/Gambut%20Militarflugplatz%201.html
15. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/El%20Qassasin%20Fluplatz%201.html
16. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/El%20Rus%20Wasta%20Flugplatz%201.html
17. Web site: RAF Stations - C. Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation.
18. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Gebel%20el%20Mansuriya%20Flugplatz%202.html
19. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Luxor%20Flugplatz%201.html
20. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/El%20Malaqa%20Flugplatz%201.html
21. http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/targetnorthafrica/Egypt/slides/Assuan%20Landeplatz%201.html