When I was in the Marine Corps in the late 50's and early 60's, we used a lot of them for temporary buildings.
When we deployed to a Nationalist Chinese Air Force Base on Taiwan in 1958 we had several for the various squadron purposes. We had one for our Avionics shop.
I'm not sure these are the type under discussion here, though. These were an aluminum framework with a fabric membrane inside. There were leads (?) that pulled through holes with a locking device at the junctions of the aluminum framework to secure the membrane.
We also had one as a storage unit back at Atsugi, Japan. I recall once a typhoon came up and our OIC (a Mustang 2nd Lieutenant who set the Corps' all time record for brown nosing) decided we should drop the membrane to keep the structure from blowing away in the typhoon. My crew wound up doing it. And me being a good Staff NCO who wouldn't tell his men to do something he wouldn't do himself, I was the one that wound up at the top of the frame releasing the membrane. After the membrane dropped, I was hanging onto an aluminum frame, 30' off the ground, in the middle of a typhoon while the Lieutenant stood in his office window in a Class A uniform and watched. Sheesh!
I don't recall that my crew and I even got thanked for it. But, my crew made up for it in other ways. I can tell another story about that crew, but I'll start another thread.
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