RAF Long Marston

RAF Long Marston was an English World War 2 military airfield, used by the Royal Air Force, that was opened in 1941 in the county of Warwickshire.HistoryThe airfield was constructed in 1940 upon privately owned arable farmland requisitioned in 1939 for war use by the Air Ministry, the builder John Laing & Son being contracted by the British Government for the task.Its war-time facilities consisted of three tarmac runways in a standard R.A.F. 'A' configuration, with the primary one running for 1500 yards (the main runway would subsequently be extended to 2400 yards), and the other two 1100 yards each; an air-traffic control tower, two T2 hangars and one B1 hangar. It possessed also a mix of 27 pan and spectacle dispersals, which were used to spread the aircraft around the site to make targeting of them more difficult in the event of an attack by the Luftwaffe, and air-raid shelters. The airfield was equipped with ground assault defensive concrete pill-boxes, 2 of them of the distinctive "F.C. Construction" (or "Mushroom") type. The facility also comprised billets to house up to 1000 air personnel.