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The Battle of Kassel was a four-day struggle between the U.S. Army and the German Army in April 1945 for Kassel, a medium-sized city 140 kilometers northeast of Frankfurt am Main, which also is the second-largest city in Hesse (after Frankfurt). The battle resulted as the U.S. Third Army pushed northeast from the region of Frankfurt and Mainz.
- 1–4 April 1945
- Kassel, Germany
- American victory
A history of a US Army ordnance activity at Hindenburg Kaserne in the early Occupation period (before the Ordnance school took over the installation in December 1946) can be found on two German websites: http://www.orion-werk.de/ & http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion-Werke
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Then known as Fliegerhorst Kassel, the facility was used during World War II by the German Luftwaffe as a combat airfield. It was seized in early April 1945 by the United States Army and used as a Ninth Air Force combat airfield until the end of the war in Europe.
- 1934/35
- Military airfield
- 1939–1945 (Luftwaffe), 1945–1946 (United States Army Air Forces), 1946–1972 (United States Army), 1973–2008 (Bundeswehr)
- Luftwaffe
Sep 27, 2013 · Digging Deeper. The USAAF conducted roughly twenty bombing raids over Kassel, Germany from 1942 through 1945. These raids resulted in severe fires, the deaths of at least 10,000 inhabitants of the city, and the destruction of much of the city center.
- Dr. Zar
Jul 25, 2015 · After V-E Day, the airfield was redesignated as Army Air Force Station Kassel/Rothwesten and was used as an occupation garrison by the Air Force. In addition, the Air Technical Service Command arrived and established "Kassel Air Depot" whose mission was to maintain and service the combat aircraft remaining operational in Germany.
The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Kassel at the beginning of April 1945. The US 80th Infantry Division captured Kassel in bitter house-to-house fighting during 1–4 April 1945, which included numerous German panzer-grenadier counterattacks, and resulted in further widespread devastation to bombed and unbombed structures alike.
Dec 17, 2023 · Between February 1942 and March 1945, Kassel was subjected to more than 40 bombing attacks from Allied force, reducing the city’s population from a pre-war high of 236,000 to a post-war lull of just 50,000. By the war’s end at least 90% of the old city centre lay in ruins, medieval buildings brought to the ground by tons and tons of ammunition.
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