RAF Alconbury
RAF Alconbury was home to two squadrons of A-10s, the 509th and 511th Tactical Fighter Squadrons. It was also home to a squadron of U-2 spyplanes.
A single runway bisected the base. The 511th Vultures squadron was on the far side in this photo. Note the numerous hardened aircraft shelters (HASs).
A ground-level look at some of the many HASes scattered all over the airfield. Two A-10s fit in each HAS, stacked nose-to-tail.
The 511th squadron operated two main Ops buildings -- our normal, unhardened, peacetime building, seen here...
... and a hardened, bomb-resistant building where we would operate if things ever got ugly with the Soviets. (2015 photo.)
We also had a bar called the Pig Sty, inside this WWII-era Quonset hut. (This photo is from 2015, but it looked about the same in 1988.)
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