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Types of revetment in LW airfields
LW used several types of revetments, blast walls, etc. Some were intended for single engine fighters with wedge shaped walls, other made of concrete, up to more sophisticated double bay for medium bombers, embedded with exclusive repair shops along with shelters for crews and so on. Each had different constructional features, shape and dimensions. Do we know if they were built under established standards and/or can anyone detail the various types?
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The following is written in the context of the airfields in the Netherlands.
The Luftwaffe used standard drawings for the construction of many buildings, hangars and shelters. This working method was known as the Regelbau. Contractors had to comply with this (example: Junkershalle). More often, however, buildings fell into the Sonderbau category. This becomes clear in the case of control towers at Dutch airfields. There was no standardization. There were simple control towers, housed in a wooden house on a raised platform, but also fully concrete control towers on pillars. Aircraft shelters also existed in all shapes and sizes. For both the Regelbau and the Sonderbau, the Luftwaffe often took the local German building traditions, better known as Heimatschutzarchitektur or the Heimat(schutz)stil, as a guideline. This architectural style, which mainly used farmhouses and castles as sources of inspiration, fitted in well with the National Socialist glorification of Germany's rural past. By building in this style it was, according to the Abteilung Planung der Untergruppe Hochbau of the Luftgaukommando Holland 'oft ausgeschlossen (...), die Unterkünfte von den umgebenen Dörfern zu unterscheiden'. The hangars can be subdivided into subtypes, which varied in size or roof construction. Furthermore, the Luftwaffe had heated and unheated hangars. The doors of the larger hangars could be opened and closed electrically. The Splitterboxen showed at least as much variety. (from the book Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd) A heated hangar was called a Wärmehalle. In the attachment you can see three pictures of such a hangar at former Fliegerhorst Deelen in the Netherlands. |
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Hello ,
Here a photo from the " Junkerhalle " at St-Truiden / St-Trond airfield in Belgium Regards Alain57 |
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From Tirstrup 1944.
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Thank you Larry: have you ever come across something like these, at least for ascertaining if they are german crafted?
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Very, very interesting, Marquis..............I think I can say with near 99% certainty that those two are not of German design from the 1933-45 period. I say this because their design is totally alien to me after looking at many hundreds - even thousands - of aircraft shelters on airfields occupied by the Luftwaffe across all of Europe. These appear on aerial photos and on sketches made from the aerial photos by section A.I.2.(b) of the wartime British Air Ministry. This section's files at BNA in London may also contain reports, photos, drawings and interrogation summaries of how they were built too, because I didn't examine every file generated by A.I.2.(b).
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Blast walls found in Denmark:
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About your very good photo on Grove Trondheim airdome in 1942 … could it be a « D » from JG 103 (JFS 3 for the time) ?
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Great photos, Carsten! The simple berm blast bay was one of the most common.............aircraft shelters built by the Germans in the West could be more elaborate than those built on Feldflugplätzen in the East - in most cases they didn't even both with them in the East as in was more expedient to simply use the Russian-built ones found on the occupied airfields.
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Enclosed, the nowadays German hangar (called D21) on former Florennes Flugplatz (Belgium). Unfortunately condemned to destruction for F-35 facility. Its wooden framework is a masterpiece.
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That is really sad. It would be nicer if they found a 'second life' for it. At Fliegerhorst Deelen in the Netherlands all building from WWII have been marked as monument and are in this way protected against demolition. A little video (only in Dutch unfortunately) about the former German airfield here. |
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I have tried to preserved it as a monument for 8 years but brasses don't understand its historical value. Alaas, as a NCO I can do little. A shame isn't it.
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