22nd Air Base
| Marienburg Focke-Wulf factory | |
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B-17s destroyed all but one of the buildings at the Marienburg Focke-Wulf factory on October 9, 1943.
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| Battles/wars | Operation Pointblank (WWII) |
 strike and recon images
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Before 1943 bombing
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After 1943 bombing
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2009 photo gallery
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The 22nd Air Base (Polish: 22. Baza Lotnicza) is a Polish Air Force Air Force Base east of Malbork, Poland, near the village of Królewo Malborskie. It was officially constituted on 1 January 2001, replacing the disbanded 41st Fighter Aviation Regiment. The main unit based there is the 41st Air Tactical Squadron flying MiG-29 fighters.
A civilian airfield was established in 1929 at Königsdorf near Marienburg - as it was known then. It was acquired by the Luftwaffe in 1934. Near the airfield was a 100-acre (0.40 km2) Focke-Wulf aircraft production plant that had been moved from Bremen and which produced approximately half of all Focke-Wulf Fw 190s, and the Stalag XX-B prisoner-of-war camp was nearby. A US Eighth Air Force air raid on the "industrial area in Marienburg" on October 9, 1943, by 96 B-17 Flying Fortresses was called the Marienburg raid by Life magazine. The plant was attacked a second time by 98 B-17s on April 9, 1944.
Post-war, Marienburg became Malbork, Poland; and Soviet Air force units were based there for a few years. In 1952 41st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Force of the Polish Army was formed to be based there, initially equipped with MiG-15 fighters, later replaced with MiG-17s, and from 1964 MiG-21s. In 2001 the regiment was dissolved and its ground and air components separated, to form the 22 Air Base and 41st Air Tactical Squadron respectively. In 2003 the last MiG-21s were retired, and in 2004 the squadron was rearmed with refurbished MiG-29s obtained from Germany.
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