Eindhoven Airport

This airfield was built in 1932. In April 1939, the airfield was claimed due to general mobilization. The war puts an end to the developments and aspirations of Welschap airport because within two days Eindhoven was occupied and the Luftwaffe took over the field. The name was changed to Fliegerhorst Eindhoven and the Germans immediately started the extensions with 3 paved runways, 130 stabling places and 53 hangars. Bunkers were built around the airport, sometimes camouflaged as houses. An alloy camp followed in 1942 and the airport got its own rail connection from Aalst-Waalre station.

Fliegerhorst Eindhoven was captured by American paratroopers during Operation Market Garden, in 1944. The Allied forces repaired the airfield and used it as Advanced Landing Ground (ALG).

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Source

• Text: Kaj Metz en Tijke van de Ven
• Photos: Tijke van de Ven
• GRIMM, P. e.a., Vliegvelden in oorlogstijd, Boom, Amsterdam, 2017.

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