Ras el Ma Airfield

Ras el Ma Airfield
Ras el Ma Airfield;
Part of Twelfth Air Force
Coordinates	35°08′18.23″N 002°25′08.36″W / 35.1383972°N 2.4189889°W
Type	Military airfield
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built	1942
In use	1942-1943

Ras el Ma Airfield

class=notpageimage|

Location of Ras el Ma Airfield, Morocco

Ras el Ma Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Morocco, located in the southeast suburbs of Ras Kebdana.^{[dubious – discuss]} The airfield served as a support facility for the port, allowing Allied aircraft to be assembled and parepared for combat duty, then flown from the airstrip as replacements during the North African Campaign.

The United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force also used the airfield to re-equip the 27th Bombardment Group with the A-36 Apache close air support variant of the P-51 Mustang in April 1943. Once the unit was successfully transitioned from its A-20 Havoc light bombers, it was reassigned back to combat duty at Korba, Tunisia.^{[citation needed]}

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.