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Orly Airport is a commercial airport located south of Paris, France. Before the completion of Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly was the primary airport for service to Paris, and to this day it remains the busiest domestic airport in France.
Orly opened in the early 1930s as an alternative to Le Bourget Airport, which was already at capacity, and taken over during WWII by the Luftwaffe during the Occupation of France. As a result, the airport was subjected to multiple and repeated bombings by the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force. After the allied landing at Normandy and the ensuing battle, the damage done by the bombing to Orly was repaired by the US Air Force, so that it could then be used as an aerial base of operations by them to strafe the Germans. After the war, Orly continued to be held by the Americans until 1947, when it was officially returned to the French Government. It reopened to commercial travel in January of the following year.


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