airfields with bunkers?

Alex wrote:

Indeed A.N, they can't tell their ARS from their E-Pen.

Can too!

An E-Pen is cranked, like an elbow, so I can rell my ARS from my elbow.......

mbriscoe;156048 wrote:

'Bunker' does tend to now get used for anything very solid, hardened etc. When does a concrete building with thick walls that is mounded over become a 'bunker' if following the dictionary definition?

As soon as it's filled with coal?

Peter wrote:

It is also use to describe a mentality

I have often come across the term "underground bunker" so this would assume there was an over ground version?

3 types.

1. Underground
2. Overground
3. Wombling Free.

Sorry, can't take this seriously now!

The bus stop down the road from me was damaged by a truck a month ago. It survived - is it therefore classified as a hardened shelter?

A bunker was built in our garden in Luton in 1941.

Going back through my notes from 1976 during a visit to Colorado they believed a bunker had to survive a direct hit from a nuclear device to be correctly classified.

The definition recorded had been that a bunker was a defensive military fortification designed to protect people or valued materials from falling bombs or any other form of attack.

The example given was that ' Cheyenne Mountain ' was a bunker and that their remote isolated ICBM's were in ' Silo's '

Any structure that could be undermined was a hardened facility.

Dave.

The RN and Merchant Navy were responsible for lubricating them. That is why they stored Bunker Oil.........

Winston Churchill had a underground bunker in Dollis hill during WW2.