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Tour-en-Bessin Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield located near the commune of Tour-en-Bessin in the Basse-Normandie region of northern France. It lies to the southeast of Tour-en-Bessin.The United States Army Air Force established a temporary airfield on 12 July 1944 shortly after the Allied landings in France. It was constructed by the IX Engineering Command 833d and 846th Engineer Aviation Battalions.
