Over a total surface of 89 acres, the Air Service engineers constructed 12 wooden barracks and a mess hall, as well as 5 buildings to be used as warehouses and maintenance shops.

Also, additional enemy pursuit, observation and bombardment forces meant most of the Kaiser's best aviation units defended the area.

Since cloud cover severely limited photographic reconnaissance, headquarters confined missions to a few, well-defined and extremely important areas.

If the need for information was great, pilots flew even in heavy cloud cover hoping for a chance break to take that important picture.

[2] In early November, the two squadrons of the V Corps Observation Group moved up to Parois Airdrome, but the HQ stayed in Foucaucourt until 4 February 1919, soon to be disbanded.

The last squadron - 28th - was ordered to report to the 1st Air Depot at Colombey-les-Belles Aerodrome to demobilize in mid February 1919.