Henschel Hs 129 "Tank Killer" aircraft of Schlachtgeschwader 1 (SG 1) were assigned, with the pilots moving mostly to the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union.

[1] With the increasing Allied bomber attacks on Germany in 1944, Lippstadt was assigned to be part of the Defense of the Reich campaign by the Luftwaffe.

Nachtjagdgeschwader 11 (NJG 11), with Bf 109Gs and Focke-Wulf Fw 190As, arrived in August 1944, performing night interceptor operations against Royal Air Force bombers attacking German targets.

[1] The city of Lippstadt was a major rail transportation hub for the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRB), and the railroad marshaling yards were targeted by Eighth Air Force bombers on several missions beginning in late 1943.

As Allied ground forces moved into Eastern France fighter bombers made attacks on the airfields of the Luftwaffe in general.

[4] Aircraft operations ended in early March 1945 when the use of the airfield by the Luftwaffe became unsustainable due to fuel shortages, lack of equipment, constant air raids and the general retreat of the German forces from the area.

[6] By 20 April, enough repairs had been made to allow the field to be used by operational combat units, and the Ninth Air Force 373d Fighter Group moved in with P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bombers and supported Allied ground forces rapidly moving east towards the Elbe River in northern and central Germany.

The Luftwaffe station can still be seen by some military style buildings laid out in a pattern indicating a garrison next to the former airfield as well in the business area you will find facilities of the former Bundeswehr use.