Royal Air Force Station Deversoir was operative as 324 Fighter Wing in 1950 when it was the home of three squadrons of DeHaviland Vampire aircraft plus 3 Gloster Meteors, one to each squadron. The squadrons were numbers 6,213 and 249. Some time near the end of WW2 the station had been used to house Italian prisoners of war and this was evidenced by a painting done by one of them which was present in 1950 - 1952 in one of the cookhouse dining room for other ranks.