Juvincourt was a rallying point for Allied POWs who were repatriated to England in "Exodus" flights, often in Lancasters and other Heavy Bombers Today, the airfield is a quiet place, hosting paintball fights and a Robert Bosch GmbH automobile testing centre and track.

A French Air Force facility was built at Juvincourt during 1938 and 1939 consisting of a grass airfield with three small grass subfields associated with it:[1] It appears that the French Air Force considered Juvincourt an auxiliary airfield and did not station any units or aircraft at the facility.

Barracks, workshop buildings, air raid bunkers, earth-covered concrete hangars and a series of taxiways connected the support and maintenance facilities with the airfield.

A railroad spur was built, with a right-of-way from the northern main line to haul supplies and equipment, as well as disassembled aircraft and munitions to the airfield.

[1] Known German combat units assigned (All from Luftflotte 3, Fliegerkorps I) were:[1][4][5][6] In August 1944, an Arado Ar 234A Jet arrived at the airfield from Sonderkommando Götz to perform reconnaissance missions over Allied shipping at the landing beaches in Normandy, France.

Eighth Air Force records show specific heavy B-17 Flying Fortress bomber attacks on the airfield in October 1943 and January 1944.

Once in American hands, combat engineers of the IX Engineering Command 820th Engineer Aviation Regiment repaired the damaged airfield and declared it operationally ready for combat units on 7 September, only a few days after its capture from German forces, being designated as Juvincourt Airfield (A-68) Although operationally usable, Juvincourt was a wrecked base from the numerous Allied air attacks since late 1942 and what was blown up by the Germans as they withdrew.

[10][11] Under American control, Ninth Air Force used the station for several units from 7 September 1944 until closing the airfield in July 1945.

Many of the buildings at the base were destroyed by the Allied air attacks, and although some had been repaired by the American combat engineers, most were in ruins.

As a result, the Air Ministry leased the land, concrete runways, structures and all, out to farmers for agricultural use, sending in unexploded ordnance teams to remove the dangerous munitions.

About 1 km northwest, also along the N44 is a British World War I cemetery 49°25′50.23″N 003°51′48.53″E / 49.4306194°N 3.8634806°E / 49.4306194; 3.8634806 which has the graves of many Tommies killed along the Western Front trenches that were close by the area.

Nearby the cemetery are concrete bomb shelters dug by the Germans and reinforced, to protect personnel during the frequent Allied air raids.

The woods contain underground bomb shelters; concrete aircraft hangars, ruins of barracks; workshops and other buildings.

Photos of these structures can be found here:[1] In aerial photography, the remains of aircraft taxiways and dispersal parking revetments can be seen which connected the technical site to the airfield.

In the commune of Juvincourt-et-Damary, northeast of the airfield, several buildings that appear to be the remains of former military barracks and bomb shelter exist.

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