Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base (IATA: XCW, ICAO: LFJA) is a French Army artillery base in France. It is located two miles (3 km) southwest of the city of Chaumont, Haute-Marne, just to the west of the Route Nationale 67 (N67) highway about 0.5 miles (1 km) north of Semoutiers-Montason in the Haute-Marne département of northeast France. During the early years of the Cold War, Chaumont-Semoutiers was a front-line air base for the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE).
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