Canrobert Airfield

Canrobert Airfield was a World War II military airfield in Algeria, located approximately 4 km south of Oum El Bouaghi, approximately 70 km southeast of Constantine. It was used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force during the North African campaign against the German Afrika Korps. The Allied commanders made desperate efforts to prepare forward airfields for the use of fighters and fighter-bombers. Canrobert was one of these intermediate fields.

Known Twelfth Air Force units assigned were:

When the Americans moved out in May 1943, the airfield was dismantled and abandoned. Today agriculture has reclaimed the land where the airfield existed; however, a faint outline of its main runway can be seen in aerial photography.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency