Whilst Pat and Frosty produced the custom masterpieces of individual airfields for ETO - each one taking untold hours of labour - I plodded along using generic copies to try and show more realistic representations of the hundreds of airfields that made Britain akin to an 'unsinkable' aircraft by 1945.
Many pre-1942 airfields will have grass flying surfaces whilst these and new builds were given hard runways as the need for all weather capability and heavier aircraft required in the later eras. With 1943 comes the friendly invasion of our American cousins with the USAAF allocated stations having the facility files adapted to show US aircraft, vehicles etc. Some airfields show little change between eras, possibly a change in the type of aircraft at dispersals as their roles changed but their inclusion allows the simmer to customise each one so those with skinning skills could show the correct coded aircraft for the base at that time rather than the generic ones included in the facility file. Post D-Day and the transfer of the 9th USAAF to continental Europe a number of the 1945 era bases show their reversion to an RAF role.
