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Almost immediately, the United States Army Air Force IX Engineer Command 818th Engineer Aviation Battalion cleared the airport of mines and destroyed Luftwaffe aircraft.

KG 6) Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26) 15 Aug-3 Oct 1943 Focke-Wulf Fw 190A Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1) 6-30 Jun 1944 Messerschmitt Bf 109GThe increasing number and frequency of USAAF Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator daylight heavy bomber raids over Occupied Europe and Germany made the Luftwaffe to move out the bomber units and assign day interceptor fighter units to attack the American bombers (Defense of the Reich campaign).

The airport then had three gates, housed within a marquee tent while the permanent facilities were being redeveloped.Today the airport is a modern, well-equipped civil airport.

After D-Day, elements of JG 1 were moved to France and were tasked with providing air support to the army Wehrmacht, along with their normal air defense role against Allied bombersIn response to the intereptor attacks, Beauvais was attacked by USAAF Ninth Air Force B-26 Marauder medium bombers and P-47 Thunderbolts mostly with 500-pound General-Purpose bombs; unguided rockets and .50 caliber machine gun sweeps when Eighth Air Force heavy bombers (B-17s, B-24s) were within interception range of the Luftwaffe aircraft assigned to the base.

ISBN 0-89201-092-4.In 1950 the Air Ministry offered to provide the wartime air base to NATO as part of the Cold War development of the alliance, and the need for additional air bases in the face of the Warsaw Pact threat to Western Europe.

Instead, in 1953 the NATO plans for Beauvais were discontinued and the airport was returned to private hands.McAuliffe, Jerome J: U.S.Air Force in France 1950-1967 (2005), Chapter 17, Dispersed Operating BasesIt took until 1956 for Beauvais-Tillé to be rebuilt as a civil airport and reopened for commercial use.