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
Last edited by JVM; 06-29-2010 at 05:50 PM.
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