Posted:
By: Win Bryson
On: 07/29/2003
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I can answer where the 613SQ living area was, but also have a question about it:
1. On some maps, the 613SQ. living area is shown as "Site-4", but on other maps as "Site-9". But geographically, they're in the same place - directly south of the airfield, about 1/2-mile.
2. "Map-wise", from the road that runs "east-west" (between Kettering and Upper Benefield) along the south of the airfield, the road to the 613SQ living area "takes-off" south, across from the airfield. It runs directly south across a little valley and dead-ends about 1/2-mile at the 613SQ living area. [On some maps the Yokehill Farm is shown and identified, and is next to the 613SQ living area.
3. Note: Where this road (to the 613SQ living area) meets the "east-west" road (between Kettering and Upper Benefield), is the 401BG memorial, on the airfield side of the road.
4. Question: Today, the 613SQ living area buildings that remain are "pre-fab" - square concrete boxes. Can any 401BG/613SQ vet remember if the buildings there, during WWII, for the 613SQ were the "round" nissen type quansets [or these pre-fabs]?
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