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Saint-Leu Airfield
12th USAAF
Part of Twelfth Air Force
Coordinates 35°48′21.89″N 000°16′05.42″W / 35.8060806°N 0.2681722°W / 35.8060806; -0.2681722
Type Military airfield
Site information
Controlled by United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built 1942
In use 1942-1943
Saint-Leu Airfield is located in Algeria
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Saint-Leu Airfield
Location of Saint-Leu Airfield, Algeria

Saint-Leu Airfield was a military airfield in Algeria, near the city of Bettioua, about 45 km northeast of Oran.

During World War II it was used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force 319th Bombardment Group during the North African Campaign against the German Afrika Korps. The 319th flew B-26 Marauder medium bombers from the airfield between 11 and 18 November 1942.

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