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Cardonville Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield located near the commune of Cardonville in the Basse-Normandie region of northern France.Located just outside of Cardonville the United States Army Air Force established a temporary airfield shortly after D-Day on 10 June 1944 shortly after the Allied landings in France The airfield was one of the first established in the liberated area of Normandy being constructed by the IX Engineering Command 816th Engineer Aviation Battalion.