Forward Ammunition Depot 1942 - 1945
Bures Ordnance Ammunition Depot AAF526



CATLEYS FARM
 
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In some situations where the transportation of bombs involved tight corners (circled in red) the americans built by-pass roads to circumvent these obstacles..

This road (indicated red) ran from Catleys Farm to the road opposite Brambles Cottage.

 


At the upper end of the road (opposite to Brambles Cottage) was a site used by the USAAF for waste disposal. It was scattered with empty 50 calibre ammunition boxes, empty bomb fin crates, aircraft flares, distress flares and all manner of munition rubbish.

A schoolboys haven for mischief.

10/08/05