Bomb Crater Ready - Battle of Britain

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  1. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

    I read today that the RAF, during the Battle of Britain, kept mounds of rubble etc nearby to able to fill bomb craters in quicker. I’d never heard of this until today. Anybody else heard this?
     
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  2. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    doesnt help but interesting

    Oblique aerial view of Exeter airfield, Devon, from the north-east. Damage caused by the severe night air raids mounted against the airfield in April and May 1941 is still apparent among the buildings of the technical site on the left, including the large pre-war civilian hangar used by the Royal Aircraft Establishment. In the foreground repairs to the grass surfaces have been carried out by filling in bomb craters with rubble from bombed houses in Exeter. Aircraft, many of which belong to the Gunnery Research Unit, are dispersed around the airfield and in the adjoining fields. Boulton Paul Defiants of No. 307 Polish Night Fighter Squadron RAF can be seen parked in the double aircraft pens constructed around the dispersal loop track (lower right), which cuts across fields and hedge boundaries of land requisitioned from nearby Treasbeare Farm.
    ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTER COMMAND, 1939-1945.
     
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  3. ted angus

    ted angus Senior Member

    I have a copy of Air Publication 3236. The Second World War 1939 to 1945 Royal Air Force , "WORKS" published in 1956 by the Air Ministry ( AHB) The Term Works is now known as Infrastructure. Page 218 from early 1939 each station held Sand and Broken Rubble or Hardcore- 100 tons of each, this was subsequently increased to 300 tons and by 1941, learning from experiences in France during 1940 was increased to 1,000 tons.
     
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  4. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

    Thanks Ted. That's great.
     
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