From US Army the Green Series of books: Pictoral Record (459 pages) 1951
AN ENGINEER COMPANY AT WORK ON AN AIRFIELD in England. By 1 June
1944 a total of 129 airfields was available in the United Kingdom for the Eighth and
Ninth Air Forces. In addition there were 3 base air depots, 7 combat crew and
replacement centers, 2 reconnaissance and 1 photographic reconnaissance fields, 19
troop carrier fields, 11 advance landing grounds, and 2 miscellaneous fields. Living
quarters for more than 400,000 air force personnel had to be furnished, plus many
thousands of square feet of space for storage.