1941 - 1944 (German Occupation) - (Luftwaffe units based in Vilani during the German occupation)
A correspondent recently contacted me regarding this airfield with the following information:
"I have a relative (my father-in-law's mother) who was a young girl at the time. She remembers participating in the
construction of the airfield. It can't have been just for temporary forward field use because they did extensive
digging with the help of Latvian women and children (she remembers how the German soldiers let the women and
children take cover first and the soldiers provided protective cover on-top during Soviet air-attacks)."
[My thanks to Stephan Andrén for this item]
