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Original Text (Annotation: EAW023242 / 1058979)

' "The American Site". These are the concrete aprons and bases of the temporary hangars where hundreds of USAAF aircraft were assembled after being shipped across the Atlantic into Avonmouth. Trucks and even wingless fuselages were towed down the Portway at night in the blackout, through Bristol and up to Filton, the drivers following a specially painted line on the road '