HIDDEN AIR DEPOTS
DECENTRALISATION IN ENGLAND British plans to guard against attacks on aprodromes are mentioned in the issue of the New York Times. Un'der a plan just completed by the R.A.F. maintenance command, it says, no aerodrome will have "all its eggs in one basket/' With this end in view, small new buildings in the folds of sheltering hills or hidden in woods and separated for miles by innocent-spooking farm land, are known to be "linked depots" in the R.A.F.'s attack-proof supply system. Bombs will have to fall as thick and fast as shells did on the Somme battlefield in the last war, and over almost as great an area, if a single major aerodrome is to be knocked out because, in Addition to decentralisation of supplies of fuel, ammunition, engines and other essentials, alternative landing fields have been' cunningly arranged and camo'J ffa'ged Within easy glide of the main aerodrome. In every district motor repair units have been mobilised under Lord Nuffield, and during or imm<> diately after a raid aerodromes will have their stocks replenished and their damaged machinery . rushed away to scattered repair clr.pots.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 171, 10 June 1940, Page 6
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188HIDDEN AIR DEPOTS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 171, 10 June 1940, Page 6
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