Pipeline vulnerability depends partly on how the line is routed and protected. The wartime British example describes Germany trying to discover how fuel reached airfields around the country. A buried pipeline network carried fuel between airfields and other locations, while British control of German intelligence networks complicated the search. Parts of the network survived after the war. Surface markers can reveal the presence of underground infrastructure, and protected pipeline corridors can explain why particular strips of land remain undeveloped.
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Britain's buried wartime fuel-distribution network
Underground pipelines helped move fuel between British airfields while making the distribution system harder to locate and attack.