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Gerbini Airfield is a series of abandoned World War II military airfields in Sicily located 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of Catania near the intersection of the A19 and SP24 highways. The airfields consisted of a series of flat agricultural fields used for runways and parking areas. First used by German Luftwaffe forces during the Battle of Sicily they were attacked on several occasions by United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force bomber aircraft.