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In 1927 the City of Munich proposed to upgrade the airfield to primary airport. North of the
Nymphenburg-Biedensteiner Canal was to become the airport, south of it was to remain the military exercise area. The first wooden buildings were built for the handling of passengers and freight in 1929, soon
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Landing Ground, R-74. IX Air Service Command units used the airfield as a casualty evacuation and combat resupply airfield for only a few days until the German Capitulation on 8 May. The field was transferred to Air Service Command and the Air Force
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followed by a hangar. With the construction of a flight handling building the airport became a full airport in 1931. It remained in use as the Munich municipal airport until 1939, after which it was relieved by the newer and much larger
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Oberwiesenfeld was transferred to control of the United States Army on 1 April 1948, it being re-designated as
Oberwiesenfeld Army Airfield. Around 1950/1955 a helicopter unit with
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Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces
Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
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broadcast from the former airport terminal from 1953 until 1968 when it was moved to other facilities. Known US Army units assigned were:
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