Quartier Général d'Aboville
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Quartier Général d'Aboville, formerly Chaumont-Semoutiers Air
Base, is a French Army artillery base in France. It is located two
miles (3 km) southwest of the city of Chaumont, Haute-Marne, just
to the west of the Route Nationale 67 (N67) highway about 0.5
miles (1 km) north of Semoutiers-Montsaon in the Haute-Marne
département of northeast France. It was built on 1951 and started
use since 1952 until present.
During the early years of the Cold War, Chaumont-Semoutiers air
base was used by United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE).
The Air Base resides at an elevation of 1,018 ft (310 m) above mean
sea level. It has a concrete surface runway designated 1/19 which measures
9,900 ft (3,017 m).
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