"Tex Houston" wrote in message ...


I'm kind of starting this thread over.

The USAAF established maintenance depots called the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Base
Air Depots at Burtonwood, Warton and Langford Lodge. For typical activities
see:

What you bring is just what I'm describing but huge and not small: *I
never said the USA and UK militaries couldn't have huge repair,
construction, assemble, and parts manufacturing.*



http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/local...ro/facts.shtml

Quite interesting that the RAF and USAFF were able to muster large
scale, I had only put forward small-scale,
labor, technological, industrial, and financial gaints. This
facialities had to be near major airbases? It is itself a military
facility or a manufacturers' facility?


and the related links found on those pages.

These were the sites for heavy maintenance for aircraft and ground support
equipment.

In addition there were Strategic Air Depots designed to do the same tasks on
a smaller scale (Burtonwood was the largest air base in Europe). These were
located at Honington, Little Staughton, Watton and Wattisham (1st SAD, 2nd
SAD, 3rd SAD, 4th SAD with a 5th SAD later located in France. These were
the

Thank-you Tex. Burtonwood was the largest air base in Europe. My
only mistake, I'm gonna pay dearly for it too just see, is that I was
so timid as to put forward only "small factories" on major bases. Now
I have catagorical evidense of large-scale conprensive repair,
recycling, reconstruciton of all manner of aircraft all at once
occuring at one major air base and text stating smaller versions
existed on many bases.

My detractors will now claim a victory. ****ing fags they must be,
and on drugs too, I bet.

John Freck













These depots serviced both US and UK aircraft.

A little selective Googling on these names will give you additional history.

Source: USAAF HANDBOOK 1939-1945 by Martin W Bowman and Google.

As you will see, these organizations were highly developed and the
'blacksmith shop' approach envisioned earlier in the thread was not a
necessary thing although local innovation may have resulted in numerous 'war
stories'.

Tex Houston