WWII Airfield Construction Photos

Hi,
I posted this in the intro section, but thought I'd also post here (as many miss the new members section).
I am always intrigued by the abandoned airfields of WWII, primarily in the UK. Those of the untouched partially remaining buildings are the most striking to me.
I recently made a video highlighting the aircrews of the Lancaster Bomber.

I would now like to make a short video highlighting the particularly unique abandoned airfields. While there are many pictures of these airfields, I have yet to come across pictures of the actual construction processes and the workers involved.

I am looking to give the video a different slant and the opportunity to present the airfields in a different perspective. Thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions you may have.

There are many images freely available on Footnote.com. If you do a search entitled 'airfield construction' you should be able to find the relevent material you need!
Welcome to the forum by the way:)

Welcome to the forum - you'll enjoy it here.

There are some pictures of the preparation of the ALG at Christchurch - steel mesh runway laid by the USAAF 833EAB in 1943 - on my website ......

Denis;60353 wrote:

There are many images freely available on Footnote.com. If you do a search entitled 'airfield construction' you should be able to find the relevent material you need!
Welcome to the forum by the way:)

Thanks Dennis!
That site tends to contain mainly documents heavily geared to US operations. Came up kinda dry for images.
I'll try different searches.

Daveg4otu;60358 wrote:

Welcome to the forum - you'll enjoy it here.

There are some pictures of the preparation of the ALG at Christchurch - steel mesh runway laid by the USAAF 833EAB in 1943 - on my website ......

Very cool! Some great shots of the metal mesh on the runways (that I was not aware of)
Thanks!

Doering;60410 wrote:

Came up kinda dry for images.
I'll try different searches.

The age old problem! The Americans filmed everything because they had access to film and cameras. The only images taken on British airfields seem to be few and far between, and then only by Official photographers.
I have the book published by the US 834th Engineer Aviation Battalion (Matching Green and A21 St Laurent sur Mer) It is stuffed with photos showing the construction of these airfields and the equipment used. I wonder if the British Civil engineering companys like WC French, Mc alpine who built many airfields for the RAF have/had an archive of such images.

Denis;60431 wrote:

The age old problem! The Americans filmed everything because they had access to film and cameras. The only images taken on British airfields seem to be few and far between, and then only by Official photographers.
I have the book published by the US 834th Engineer Aviation Battalion (Matching Green and A21 St Laurent sur Mer) It is stuffed with photos showing the construction of these airfields and the equipment used. I wonder if the British Civil engineering companys like WC French, Mc alpine who built many airfields for the RAF have/had an archive of such images.

Hi Denis,
Sorry for the extra "n" in your name above.
Do you have an ISBN for that book?

No ISBN I'm afraid. It was printed immediately after WWII by the EAB itself. There is no information on the cover I have as my 'copy' is just that...a copy!.....think ...pirated

Denis;60443 wrote:

No ISBN I'm afraid. It was printed immediately after WWII by the EAB itself. There is no information on the cover I have as my 'copy' is just that...a copy!.....think ...pirated

Okay, thanks. My quest goes on. This is going to be a tough nut to crack .... as they say.

A number of the unit histories published after WWII for various Engineer Aviation Regiments and Battalions are readable online:

www.ixengineercommand.com/biblio.php

All the best,
PB