If you want to know what an airbase in Central Europe was like
during the Cold War, visit Weeze (ex RAF Laarbruch) June 17,
2012Posted by Richard Clements in : Military History , trackback
During early 1945 the allies were building up for the final push
across the Rhine and found themselves in need of several
airfields close to the front line. Advanced Landing Ground Goch
(B-100) was built about 70 km (43 miles) from Dusseldorf near
the border with the Netherlands, by the British Army to perform
this task. A simple 1,180 meter (3,600 feet) runway with a 983
meter (3,000 feet) grass runway as an emergency strip was all
there was. The airstrip was only used from early March until
late April when all combat types had left the area and B-100 was
then left abandoned. During 1954 after the out break of the Cold
War RAF Germany found itself in need of more airfields and
revisited Advanced Landing Ground Goch. It then commenced on a
large scale building program and re-named the site as RAF
Laarbruch. The airport, wit