Seized by the Germans in June 1940 during the Battle of France, Meucon airport was used as a Luftwaffe military airfield during the occupation.

Known units assigned (all from Luftflotte 3, Fliegerkorps IV):[1][2] KGr 100 took part in operations over England during the Battle of Britain (10 July–31 October 1940).

Subsequently, Vannes/Meucon Airport became a USAAF Ninth Air Force combat airfield, designated as "A-33" about 29 August.

The heavily damaged airport required much reconstruction, and the main runway was refurbished and repaved with asphalt.

The former secondary (13/31) runway is now a concrete parking apron and still shows some asphalt patches applied over wartime bomb craters left by the Eighth Air Force.