1578th Quartermaster Battalion
Battalion
Barnham (Warren Wood)
Military site : non-airfield
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Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan - Dispersed Site 1944. Barnham.
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Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan - Storage Building 1953. Barnham.
Advance Ammunition Parks used by the RAF were often enlarged to include USAAF munitions. These dumps which might exploit natural cave systems or dense woodland, also included concrete structures as a means of protection.
Some were also used to store poison gas bombs or chemical weapons.
Barnham had a number of satellite sites such as Warren Wood and Little Heath.
Service
Units
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2106th Ordnance Ammunition Battalion
Battalion
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65th Ordnance Company
Company
The 65th Ordnance Company were the first Aviation ammunition Unit to arrive in the UK, doing so on 11th June 1943. They were set to immediate work establishing the first Aviation Ordnance Section in a General Service Depot, at Burtonwood. They were... -
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 September 2014 18:02:16 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Manual (London, 1991) http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?1034... |
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