"Royal Air Force Bomber Command Emergency Landing Ground, Woodbridge, Suffolk" Woodbridge ELG (lower left) was specially built as the first of three Bomber Command emergency runways for damaged allied aircraft returning from operations over Europe. It was opened in No. 3 Group, Bomber Command, on 15 November 1943 and was administered as a satellite of RAF Bentwaters (upper right). Dispersal loops, onto which crashed bombers were taken and serviceable aircraft parked, adjoin the south side of the single large runway (3,000 yards long x 250 yards wide), the size of which should be compared with those of the airfield at Bentwaters.