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Quonset hut

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Quonset hut
A prefabricated structure, developed during World War II, that has a semicylindrical shape; commonly constructed of corrugated steel fastened to arched steel ribs that are rigidly fastened to a concrete slab floor.


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Cleared of a deadly menace which still lurks elsewhere along Bagram's perimeter, the complex of cinderblock, containers, Quonset huts and high barbed-wire fences will hold 675 inmates by the year end.
The existing Quonset hut building on North Main Street, constructed in the 1940s, no longer meets department needs or state and federal regulations.
During the right turn, the CH-53's rotor blades struck a Quonset hut that was on the left side of the aircraft.
 
 
 
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