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RAF Digby Sector Operations Room Museum

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RAF Digby Sector Operations Room Museum
RAF Digby Sector Operations Room Museum
RAF Digby
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN4 3LH

Tel: 01526 327 619
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About RAF Digby Sector Operations Room Museum

At midnight on 2nd September 1939 Great Britain issued an ultimatum to Germany and on the following day Neville Chamberlain broadcast to the nation that a state of war existed between Great Britain and Germany.
On duty on 3 September 1939, within the Traffic and Receiving Room of the Operations room at RAF Digby, was 19 years old AC2 Charles Mayhew. Shortly after midday, he received a signal over the 12 Group teleprinter circuit and brought it to the attention of the Duty Fighter Controller. The Fighter Controller briefed the Operations staff and broadcast the information to the station, 'War has broken out with Germany'. The signal was returned to Charles Mayhew, who was then expected to file the signal or destroy it. Instead, he took one of the copies and held onto it for the next 58 years. When the RAF Digby Operations room museum opened in May 1997, Charles Mayhew returned and presented us with a unique document marking the moment when our station went to war. This document is on display today.



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