(via Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age)
By the end of 1941, approximately 8,200 T-Rib Quonset huts were produced. Huts sent to Iceland proved their success in their first winter of use. According to George A. Fuller Co.: “A night gale of hurricane proportion that wrecked shipping in the harbor, tossed crumpled PBYs on the beach like paper hats, and ripped the covering completely off of many British Nissen huts, left the Quonset huts practically undamaged.”
