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Re: SAS (Servicing Aircraft Section) meaning on AM 78 cards
Gentlemen, thanks
I have had the Burtonwood Depot pointed out for me and also explained by friends via Air Britain
The SAS was a subsection within either a MU or civilian contractor which handled the daily
paperwork you could say, ensuring the aircraft was taken care of properly and sent to the repair
depot of said MU/Contractor and also handed back to its proper authority (unit) within RAF.
Burtonwood Repair Depot (someone probably shortened it to that and not Burtonwood Base
Repair Depot) was a civilian contractor who, it seems, specialized in US built aircraft and later
during the war exclusively worked for the USAAF.
One odd thing with the RAF based unit (37 MU) at Burtonwood is that they are listed as based
at Burtonwood, while Burtonwood Repair Depot is listed as based at Great Sankey, Warrington.
Yes I know all three places are very close together on a map, but did they actually share the same
airfield?
37 MU went lock, stock and barrel to the USAAF in 1943. What was it called within the USAAF?
Cheers
Stig
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