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Sousse Airfield

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Coordinates
  
(Approximate)

In use
  
1943

Type
  
Military airfield

Year built
  
1943

Sousse Airfield

Controlled by
  
United States Army Air Forces

Sousse Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Tunisia, which was located in the vicinity of Sousse. It was a temporary airfield used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force 31st Fighter Group which flew two squadrons of Supermarine Spitfires from the field between 9–19 June 1943

When the Americans pulled out the airfield was abandoned. There is no evidence left of its existence in aerial photography of the area.

References

Sousse Airfield Wikipedia