Airfield Aalborg West

On 9 April 1940, at. 06:30 German troops occupied the airport in Aalborg, which has been built two years earlier. For the first time in history, paratroopers was used under a attack. The Germans were soon in place and already the 10th April operated more than 50 German transport aircraft from the airport. The Germans needed Aalborg to keep the supply line to the fighting units in Norway. The Germans immediately began with a large expansion, and already the 13th July 1940 was the first of two new concrete runways ready. Later came 19 wooden hangars, barracks, bunkers to close combat and air defense battery’s.

The Germans were thorough and up to 16,000 workers, reinforced by filling the flight station. By liberation the flight station covered more than 30 km2, and over 270 farms / parcels had been forced moved.

Flight station operation was through the war to keep supply and troop transport flights to and from Norway. In addition to the base plane to monitor the North Sea, provide fighter support for air strikes in northern England and Scotland and stand for re-training and training for night operations. The base was in April 1940 suffered an Allied air attack by British unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the Germans from sending reinforcements to Norway.

Much of the old plant is located today within the fence of the modern flight station and is therefore not publicly available.

Sea airbase Aalborg

On the other side of the Limfjord, just south of Aalborg West, the Germans started already in late summer 1940 construction of a water aerodrome.

There was built a 300 meter long pier where the water planes were moored ready for action. A crane could lift the planes on land, if they neded mantaince in the large hangar. The development of the airfield continued throughout the war with bunkers, close combat defence, barbed wire. There were built 11 crew bunkers, and a large hospital bunker, the garrison was around. 1500 man.

The base was used to the liberation in May 1945, as a sea rescue service, as well as a training center for future seaplane pilots.

After liberation, the area was used for german refugees, and later took over the civil defense area of barracks and the large hangar. In 2002, a museum was made in the hangar.