It "couldn't" be Bedford Airport / Hanscom AFB. I don't see MEW Hill, which was leveled many years after 1946. Much of the field is in Lincoln, Mass.
Well according to the source of the photograph it is reported to be Bedford Army Air Base 1946. However looking at a photograph taken in 1984 of Hanscom AFB which it became there seems little resemblance in the layout of runways. It looks as though my source has given it the wrong identification. Moral of the story "Double check one's source"
I apologise if I have caused confusion.
Seacue has control.