Quartier Général d'Aboville
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).
| Quartier General d'Aboville | |
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| Part of Armée de Terre | |
| Located near: Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France | |
Main Gate - 1962 | |
Chaumont AB Location of Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base, France | |
| Coordinates | 48°04′47″N 5°03′01″E |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | Armée de Terre |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1951 |
| In use | 1952 – present |
| Garrison information | |
| Garrison | 61e Régiment d'artillerie (61e RA) Aerial Surveillance Regiment |
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| Elevation AMSL | 1,018 ft / 310 m | ||||||||||
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