High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Schweinfurt Army Heliport is a military facility near Schweinfurt, Germany, being part of the United States Army Garrison. It is controlled by the 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry. 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team since 6 June 2006.The unit operates AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the airfield. The facility's origins begin in 1936 as a Luftwaffe airfield, its primary mission being the home of light bomber (Dornier Do 17) and dive bomber (Junkers Ju 87) units until 1942. About 1940, the Luftwaffe began assigning anti-aircraft (FlaK) units to the area, in order to provide an air defense for the Schweinfurter Kugellagerwerke and other ball bearing factories in Schweinfurt, as the city produced most of these critical components. The number of units assigned increased when the city became the target of American Eighth Air Force stragegic bombing beginning in 1943.

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