Rivenhall Airfield, Essex (Station 168)
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by Paul Clouting

Home to the 397th BG, the “Bridge Buster’s” from April to August 1944

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Operations buildings. From left to right, crew briefing room, office annexe, station office building. To the rear is the roofline of the base operations block

Base operations block, the nerve centre of the airfield. A windowless reinforced concrete blast proof building with its own self contained power generators and clean air ventilation system, protecting its occupants from indirect bomb blasts and the dreaded (and thankfully never implemented) poison gas attack.

© Paul Clouting

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