Type Combat Airfield Built 1918 Battles/wars World War I | Condition Agricultural area In use 1918–1919 | |
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Controlled by Air Service, United States Army | ||
Lay-Saint-Remy Aerodrome, was a temporary World War I airfield in France. It was located 0.7 miles (1.1 km) West-Northwest of the commune of Lay-Saint-Remy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
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The airfield was built during the summer of 1918 and allocated to the Second Army Air Service for combat operations during a planned drive against Metz in the fall. However, as a result of the November 1918 armistice, it was never used for combat operations. Subsequently, three squadrons of the 5th Pursuit Group were assigned to the field in November 1918 after their formation and flew non-combat flights from the field during late November. From Lay-Saint-Remy, the squadrons moved to Coblenz Airdrome, Fort Kaiser Alexander, in the Rhineland as part of the Third Army of Occupation, and the Aerodrome was turned over to the French Government.
Eventually, the airfield was returned to agricultural use. The exact location of the Aerodrome is undetermined.