Quonset hut, a review of the basics
The versatile structure of Quonset huts could be set up virtually anywhere. Their multi purpose structures found use as barracks, offices, ammunition dumps, housing, latrines, among many others. Thousands of Quonset huts were constructed for the war, and surplus ones were sold off to the general public at the end of the war. Even though they had been created for almost exclusive use by the military, Quonset huts proved to be at least as useful in peacetime as well. The advantages of the Quonset huts that had made so useful in the war as mass production shelters made them equally effective for this purpose as well.