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Serragia Airfield
Twelfth Air Force - Emblem (World War II)
Part of Twelfth Air Force
Coordinates 41°30′03.66″N 008°59′36.55″E / 41.5010167°N 8.9934861°E / 41.5010167; 8.9934861
Type Military airfield
Site information
Controlled by United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built 1942
In use 1942-1944
Serragia Airfield is located in France
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Serragia Airfield
Location of Serragia Airfield, France

Serragia Airfield is an abandoned military airfield in France, located approximately 26 km west-southwest of Porto-Vecchio on Corsica. Its last known use was by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force in 1944.

After the forced withdrawal of German forces from Corsica in September 1943, elements of the Twelfth Air Force 57th Bombardment Wing were moved to the island. Serragia Airdrome was taken over by the USAAF in July 1944 and used as a forward-base of operations for B-25 Mitchell bomber attacks against northern Italy and Southern France, in support of Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France.

Known units assigned to the airfield were:

The units remained on Corsica until early 1945 when enemy targets became out of range of the Mitchells. The airfield was closed by the Americans on 25 January and dismantled after the war, and today there are little or no remains of it other than the remnants of its main runway and disturbed areas where the airfield once was.

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