Ramatuelle

43°12'44"N 006°39'02"E

 

runway: n/a - ...x..m - dirt

 

Ramatuelle air field (Advanced Landing Ground Ramatuelle) was a temporary airfield 6 kilometers/ 4 miles south of St. Tropez

The airfield was built during Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France and used by 43 Sqn. RAF Spitfires. Ramatuelle was abandoned on or before 3 Sep 1944, when the remaining airfields in southern France were numbered in accordance with the other Allied Advanced Landing Grounds in Europe. As Ramatuelle did not receive a number it is safe to assume it was no longer in use by that time. The Spitfires by that time had moved on to Sisteron.

 

Spitfire LF Mark IX, MH763 ‘RN-S’, of No, 72 Squadron RAF based at Calvi, Corsica, coming in to land at the newly-constructed landing ground at Ramatuelle in southern France, piloted by Flight Lieutenant the Prince Emanuel Galitzine (photo © IWM (CL 955)

Supermarine Spitfire Mark VIIIs and IXs of No. 43 Squadron RAF parked at dispersal points on Ramatuelle landing ground (photo © IWM (CL 997)).

 

Some of the airfields dispersals remained visible in aerial photography into the late 1950s.

Today, nothing remains of the former airfield.

7 dispersals that appeared in this late Aug 1950 IGN photo seemed to be the only relics of the airfield left (IGN, via Géoportail)

Only 5 dispersals remained 5 years later (IGN, via Géoportail)

By 2005 all visible traces of the airfield had disappeared (Google Earth)