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Sterparone Airfield is an abandoned
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
military airfield in
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. It was located 11.1 kilometers south-southeast of
San Severo San Severo (; formerly known as Castellum Sancti Severini, then San Severino and Sansevero; locally ) is a city and comune of c. 51,919 inhabitants in the province of Foggia, Apulia, south-eastern Italy. Rising on the foot of the spur of Garga ...
, in the
Province of Foggia The Province of Foggia ( it, Provincia di Foggia ; Foggiano: ) is a province in the Apulia (Puglia) region of southern Italy. This province is also known as Daunia, after the Daunians, an Iapygian pre-Roman tribe living in Tavoliere plain, and ...
. The airfield was abandoned and dismantled after the end of the war in 1945.


History

Sterparone airfield was a temporary wartime facility built by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Construction was initiated in September 1943, after Allied forces seized control of the Tavoliere plain around Foggia, Apulia, Italy.Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Italy, Apulia Foggia
 The only known use of the airfield was by the Fifteenth Air Force 483d Bombardment Group, which arrived from Tortorella Airfield, Italy on 22 April 1944. Maurer, Maurer. ''Air Force Combat Units of World War II''. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. . The 483d Bomb Group consisted of four B-17 Flying Fortress squadrons: * 815th Bombardment Squadron * 816th Bombardment Squadron * 817th Bombardment Squadron *
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The airfield had a single, 6,000' x 100' asphalt runway, oriented 10/28 with two perimeter tracks, each containing about 50 aircraft parking hardstands. There may have been some temporary hangars and buildings; however, it appears that personnel were quartered primarily in tents, and most aircraft maintenance took place in the open on hardstands. It also had a steel control tower. The 483d departed after the end of the war, moving to Pisa Airport for service with Air Transport Command on 15 May 1945. Sometime after that departure, the engineers moved in and dismantled the facility. Today Sterparone Airfield has been returned to agriculture; however, extensive scarring of the landscape remains, showing various dispersal pads and taxiways and other features.


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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress airfields in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations Units in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) were the second-largest user of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II. There were a total of six combat groups (twenty-four squadrons) equipped with the bomber assigned to the ...


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{{USAAF 15th Air Force World War II Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Italy Airfields of the Fifteenth Air Force during World War II Airports established in 1943