Need a help: Some special type of buildings
 

We need images of bomb store and fuel store for British, French and German airfields.

Please post here with text if you can find anything useful and common.

here's a bit of wiki history... its all text though


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_mun...ge_during_WWII



http://www.airfieldinformationexchan...am-on-the-Hill

French were using interred fuel tanks in 1940 like the one below. All the French airfields had at least one of this kind of fuel tank (this one is 18000l) of various sizes (in Rely the fuel tank was 30000l) up to three to four dispersed along side the airfield limits.
Needless to say the Germans used them also when able!

Otherwise the Germans made extensive use of fuel trucks...
In 1940 they were used to create ammo and bomb dumps in copses and woods usually in trenches, pits often protected by the excavated earth, many of them still visible.
The Germans begun making hard constructions for their dumps more or less in the same time they improved the airfields, around the end of 1940. I do not know of 1940 photos, but 2009 photos can be found. Let me know...

JVM

The title for this is:

"16th August 1940: A munitions store at a British Fighter Station at the height of the Battle of Britain. "

Link: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/33...Hulton-Archive


http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/332...AFC5CF6109BBC7

This forum page shows the position of bomb stores:

http://www.google.se/imgres?imgurl=h...7mGt6HOMOOpbMD

This is titled:
"Here is an old photo of Hawkinge, showing the fuel dump (mound) on the left, and the small fire tender building, in front of No1 Hanger. Number 1 Hanger survived the war."

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e.../Driver007.jpg

This shows the same fuel dump now (thanks to David Cotton for both images). He has his fingers on the rails for the aircraft hanger door.

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/IMG_0039.jpg

BTW, a nice re-fuelling photo I found:

http://www.601squadron.com/images/bob_10.jpg

Two (modern) videos of the above bunker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_Hfvf1pto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB4gL...eature=related

According to this document the Fuel Dump at Kenley was mainly underground tanks, it does have a map showing location and a current photo but it shows very little. Some good photos of other buildings though.

http://www.croydon.gov.uk/contents/d...leycaadopt.pdf



This is the ammo dump at Abbotsinch Airfield, Glascow Scotland:

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/ind...toreAbbotsinch

Main Building

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...botsbldg01.jpg

Blast Baffle

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...botsbldg02.jpg



This thread/website may prove useful:

http://www.airfieldinformationexchan...nity/forum.php

http://www.airfieldinformationexchan...on-Dwg.3614-41