Angads Airport

Oujda Angads Airport is an airport serving Oujda, a city in the Oriental region in Morocco. it is located about 12km north of Oujda and about 600km northeast of Casablanca, near the Algerian border.HistoryDuring World War II, the airport was used as a military airfield by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force during the North African campaign. It was called RAF Oujda and Oujda Airfield Known units assigned were: HQ 5th Bombardment Wing, December 1942 – January 1943 HQ 52d Troop Carrier Wing, 8 May – July 1943 68th Reconnaissance Group, November 1942 – 24 March 1943 (Various photo-reconnaissance aircraft) 313th Troop Carrier Group, 9 May – 16 June 1943 C-47 Skytrain 319th Bombardment Group, 3 March – 25 April 1943 B-26 Marauder 350th Fighter Group, 6 January – 14 February 1943 P-39/P-400 Airacobra After the Americans moved out their active units in mid-1943, the airport was used as a stopover and landing field for Air Transport Command aircraft on the Casablanca-Algiers transport route. When WWII ended the control of the airfield was returned to civil authorities.