RAF chaplain Guy Mayfield was posted to RAF Duxford, a key fighter base, in February 1940, just a few months before the Battle of Britain. January 21, 1940Everyone is extremely friendly to RAF chaplains; more so, I am told, than to Army ones. Scramble: Spitfire pilots rush to their cockpits in RAF DuxfordFebruary 2I have arrived at my station, RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire. The doctor, Browne, also RAF Volunteer Reserve, gave me a very cold, clinical look and exclaimed: ‘My God! The Rev Guy Mayfield was posted to an overseas station on December 2, 1941, and ended his Duxford diary.

Source: Daily Mail March 31, 2018 21:45 UTC