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Oujda Angads Airport () is an airport serving Oujda,〔 a city in the Oriental region in Morocco. it is located about north of Oujda and about northeast of Casablanca, near the Algerian border. ==History== During World War II, the airport was used as a military airfield by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force during the North African campaign. It was called Oujda Airfield Known units assigned were: * HQ 5th Bombardment Wing, December 1942 – January 1943 * HQ 52d Troop Carrier Wing, 8 May – July 1943 * 68th Reconnaissance Group, November 1942 – 24 March 1943, (Various photo-reconnaissance aircraft) * 313th Troop Carrier Group, 9 May – 16 June 1943, C-47 Skytrain * 319th Bombardment Group, 3 March – 25 April 1943, B-26 Marauder * 350th Fighter Group, 6 January – 14 February 1943, P-39/P-400 Aircobra After the Americans moved out their active units in mid-1943, the airport was used as a stopover and landing field for Air Transport Command aircraft on the Casablanca-Algiers transport route. When the war ended, control of the airfield was returned to civil authorities. 〔Maurer, Maurer. ''Air Force Combat Units of World War II''. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angads Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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