MPN, good spot with that link. RAF Innsworth had indeed changed identity enormously throughout its life, yet its central purpose remained unchanged to the end, to enable the stretch and might of UK Airpower to be applied to its maximum worldwide. You just have to consider the stories of our WWII contributors to get a hint of what that entailed. Hundreds of thousands were distributed around the world, RAF peak strength far exceeding a million, and all to be kept check of, moving from depot to depot, to training establishments, to operational squadrons, usually via long and dangerous sea voyages. No computers then, all done by manual means. No doubt some got misplaced (on a Hollerith card that had slipped under the machine?), many were its dissatisfied customers (Danny amongst them evidently), but without it all would have been nought, and all done from the generic creosoted wooden huts that bloomed on most camps behind the resplendent mock Georgian architecture that fronted proceedings. Hopefully somebody somewhere is preserving at least some examples of those huts, together with their lino flooring brown for the buffing of, and stoves coke for the feeding of.