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 (3.2 km) southwest of the city of Chaumont, Haute-Marne, just to the west of the Route Nationale 67 (N67) highway about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Semoutiers-Montsaon in the Haute-Marne département of northeast France. During the early years of the Cold War, Chaumont-Semoutiers air base was used by United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE).
Main Gate - 1962
Republic F-84G-20-RE Thunderjet Serial No 51-1231 137th/48th Fighter Bomber Wing - 1953.
Republic F-84G-1-RE Thunderjets 51-890 of the 494th Fighter Bomber Squadron and 51-830 of the 493d FBS. Note the Pierced Steel Planking being used for the parking apron as concrete pads have not yet been poured. Both aircraft were eventually sold to the Belgian Air Force as Serials FZ-175 and FZ-199. 890 was destroyed on 25 May 1955 at Sylt, West Germany.
F-86F-35-NA Serial 53-1222 of the 494th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 1955
Chaumont, Haute-Marne
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Chaumont, also known Chaumont-en-Bassigny, is a commune of France, and the prefecture of the Haute-Marne department. As of 2019, it has a population of 21,847.
The Chaumont viaduct
Town hall
Chaumont (Haute-Marne) vieille ville