Roye - Amy Airfield Roye - Amy Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield which is located approximately 5 km south - southeast of Roye , approximately 98 km north - northeast of Paris . Originally a 1930s airport which was seized by the Germans during the Battle of France , it was used by the Luftwaffe , then by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II . After the war , the site was abandoned and is now agricultural fields . History . Roye - Amy was a pre - World War II airport , with some support buildings , a hangar and grass runways . From September 24 , 1939 until 19 May 1940 the RAF 57th BEF group used the airfield for Briston Blenheim I fast bombers , where they suffered heavy losses . German use during World War II . The airfield was seized by the Germans during the Battle of France . It was not used by the Luftwaffe until May 1941 , when Kampfgeschwader 1 ( KG 1 ) was assigned with Junkers Ju 88 medium bombers , which carried out night attacks on England . The bombers remained until June when they were withdrawn . During the occupation , the Germans constructed two 1700m concrete , all weather runways , aligned 05 / 23 and 10 / 28 . Presumably this was due to the fortification of the Pas - de - Calais , being believed by the Germans that when the Americans and British tried to land in France to open a Second Front , the airfield would have a key role in the defense of France . In March 1944 , Roye - Amy became a day interceptor airfield which housed fighters to attack the USAAF Eighth Air Force heavy bomber fleets attacking targets in Occupied Europe and Germany . Schnellkampfgeschwader 10 ( SKG 10 ) flew Focke - Wulf Fw 190 As from 9 March until 13 May 1944 . Previously not attacked by Allied bombers , Roye - Amy came under attack by Ninth Air Force B - 26 Marauder medium bombers and P - 47 Thunderbolt s mostly with 500 - pound General - Purpose bombs ; unguided rockets and . 50 caliber machine gun sweeps when Eighth Air Force heavy bombers ( B - 17 s , B - 24 s ) were within interception range of the Luftwaffe aircraft assigned to the base . The attacks were timed to have the maximum effect possible to keep the interceptors pinned down on the ground and be unable to attack the heavy bombers . Also the P - 51 Mustang fighter - escort groups of Eighth Air Force would drop down on their return to England and attack the base with a fighter sweep and attack any target of opportunity to be found at the airfield . Unlike other Luftwaffe airfields in the area , Roye - Amy did not have any wooded areas in the vicinity for camouflage its aircraft servicing area or dispersement areas . The base was on flat , former agricultural fields and the Allied attacks caused considerable damage , destroying much of the base . American use . American Ninth Army units moved though the area in early September 1944 . On 6 September The IX Engineer Command 862d Engineer Aviation Battalion moved in and began a quick rehabilitation of the base so it could be used by American aircraft . It was declared operationally ready for Ninth Air Force combat units on 8 September , only a few days after its capture from German forces , being designated as Advanced Landing Ground " A - 73 Roye / Amy Airfield " In addition to the airfield , tents were used for billeting and also for support facilities ; an access road was built to the existing road infrastructure ; a dump for supplies , ammunition , and gasoline drums , along with a drinkable water and minimal electrical grid for communications and station lighting . It hosted the following known units : When the combat units moved out , Roye - Amy Airfield was closed and turned over to the French Air Ministry on 8 August 1945 . Postwar . In French control after the war , the airport sat abandoned for several years . There was much unexploded ordnance at the site which needed to be removed , as well as the wreckage of German and American aircraft . Many of the buildings at the base were destroyed by the war , and although some had been repaired by the American combat engineers , most were in ruins . There was no use for the prewar airport , and as a result , the Air Ministry sold the land , concrete runways , structures and all , out to farmers for agricultural use , sending in unexploded ordnance teams to remove the dangerous munitions . Today all of the concrete and structures of the former airport and wartime airfield have been removed , and the land used by agriculture . Faint outlines of the runways can be seen in aerial photography . Also the remains of the technical support site , to the north of the airfield can be indirectly seen from the disturbances in the fields which indicate the outlines of some large buildings , probably hangars . The airfield was extensively bombed , and the craters left by the attacks were filled in , but are still evident on the landscape .