SOVIET BASES IN EUROPE
(Rec. 8 p.m.) BELGRADE, Jan. 18. Russia is speeding the expansion of its jet airfield network behind the northern and eastern approaches to Jugoslavia in Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. Some fields are already finished and Russian jets have been operating from them for some time. One of the biggest is near Karczag. in Hungary, with three concrete runways more than two miles long and concrete underground hangars. Another Soviet jet squadron flies from Czepel Island in the Danube below Budapest,
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26633, 19 January 1952, Page 7
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