OPERATION MARKET GARDEN - THE BATTLE FOR ARNHEM

[Flying10uk]

What is really interesting in the wartime photo of the aerodrome on the Wiki page is how disbursed the Nissan huts, etc. are. Ground staff would have been fit just from walking between the huts and the hangers.

Perhaps the RAF did disperse the buildings more on the airfields that it constructed during WW2, having learnt lessons from the Luftwaffe attacks on RAF airfields in 1940.

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[Paul S.]

Perhaps the RAF did disperse the buildings more on the airfields that it constructed during WW2, having learnt lessons from the Luftwaffe attacks on RAF airfields in 1940.

Definitely. An Aerodrome is a relatively easy target, and having barrack hut areas adjacent to hangers and Ops buildings would not be a good idea.

The photo shows the huts are well dispersed in the woodland and not clustered in one spot. Somebody had his thinking cap on planning that one.