Quarters varied from base to base; the more fortunate fliers occupied existing airfields with brick-built accommodation like the 4th Fighter Group at Debden ([photo of Major James Goodson in his bunk] (http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205362360)). In most cases, though, at the airfields built from scratch crew stayed in Nissen or Quonset huts:

• [Presentation on Nissen/Quonset huts by J. David Rogers, Missouri University of Science & Technology] (http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/ge342/quonset_huts-revised.pdf); some photographs of huts on Army Air Force bases on pages 9 & 10.

• [Crewmen living in the barracks at Boxted airbase] (http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205370884), Imperial War Museum.

• Aerial view of Tents and Nissen hut accommodation at a Barrack site at Lavenham, home of the 487th Bomb Group, Imperial War Museum.

• [Photos from the 303rd Bomb Group] (https://cambridgemilitaryhistory.com/2016/03/06/historical-photos-from-the-303rd-bomb-group-h/), including a Nissen interior

The huts weren't terribly popular, especially in the cold, damp English winters; [Life In England’s Nissen Hut] (http://www.398th.org/FlakNews/Articles/Blakebrough_NissenHut.html) is an excerpt from An Old Copilot Remembers by Ken Blakebrough, a 457th B-17 co-pilot describing the "cramped and uncomfortable quarters". [UK memories] (http://www.453rd.com/stories/u.k_memories.pdf) from The 453rd Bomb Group site mentions the huts; "Heating is from a single, small iron stove fed with rationed coke, never enough. Nearby in separate buildings are the unheated sanitary facilities". [Robert J. Beckley of the 398th] (http://www.398th.org/History/Diaries/Beckley/Beckley_Introduction.html) didn't seem to mind so much, though: "Our quarters was a Nissen hut and it could be fixed up well enough with writing tables, mirrors, pin-ups, a radio and other necessities to call it home."