ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND EMERGENCY LANDING GROUND, WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK - Woodbridge ELG (lower left) was specially built as the first of three Bomber Command emergency runways for damaged allied aircraft returning from operations over Europe. It was opened in No. 3 Group, Bomber Command, on 15 November 1943 and was administered as a satellite of RAF Bentwaters (upper right). Dispersal loops, onto which crashed bombers were taken and serviceable aircraft parked, adjoin the south side of the single large runway (3,000 yards long x 250 yards wide), the size of which should be compared with
ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND EMERGENCY LANDING GROUND, WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK - Woodbridge ELG (lower left) was specially built as the first of three Bomber Command emergency runways for damaged allied aircraft returning from operations over Europe. It was opened in No. 3 Group, Bomber Command, on 15 November 1943 and was administered as a satellite of RAF Bentwaters (upper right). Dispersal loops, onto which crashed bombers were taken and serviceable aircraft parked, adjoin the south side of the single large runway (3,000 yards long x 250 yards wide), the size of which should be compared with those of the airfield at Bentwaters Royal Air Force, 3 Group
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