Souk-el-Khemis Airfield

Souk-el-Khemis Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Tunisia, located approximately 3 km southeast of Bou Salem, and 110 km west-southwest of Tunis.

Use by the RAF was primarily in the first 3 weeks of May 1943, during which time No.255 Squadron maintained a detachment here.

Tracing such use can be problematic, because the RAF referred to the airfield only by a codename, which was "Paddington".

There is little evidence of the airfield's existence other than the outlines of the perimeter track being used for agricultural roads.

The Royal Air Force operated from a number of separate airfields around Souk-el-Khemis: This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency