Opposite the main entrance is the lane leading to the Communal Site, on which the gym and a few other airfield facilities still survive as business units.

The chapel was dedicated on November 1, 1942, by the Bishop of Buckingham, the Right Reverend Philip Eliot, in a service with commanding officers from the overall 92 Group and from RAF Wing.

Thirteen sites of living quarters were erected and dispersed over a wide area, each with up to 20 Nissen huts, some toilets, and one or two air-raid shelters.

Members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force had their own site close to Wing village on Cublington Road, much of which can still be seen today.

[3][page needed][2] A new sewage works was also constructed just south of Cublington Road to serve the airfield and its associated sites.

7 Group, equipped with Vickers Wellingtons, Avro Ansons and six Hawker Hurricane fighters to train night bomber crews.

RAF Little Horwood also housed part of the Special Operations Executive, whose work included building radio devices for the resistance and covert agents and dropping them into occupied Europe.

A Q-type decoy airfield was constructed between Wingrave and Rowsham just off the Aylesbury to Wing road to confuse enemy bombers.

In April and May 1945, RAF Wing was given orders to become a key gateway for Operation Exodus, which involved the repatriation of allied prisoners of war from the European theatre.

One thousand two hundred and sixty nine flights landed at RAF Wing, bringing back nearly 33,000 allied prisoners of war from over 21 nations.

The control tower, located south of the east-west runway, remained in a derelict state for many years before being demolished in the 1970s.

A further remembrance plaque, bust and information board have been installed by Nick Ellins, the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company and the Aylesbury Vale Golf Club at the nearby crash site of Captain Valentine Baker and the Martin-Baker MB3, and another by Nick Ellins and farmer Henry Hunt at the 1943 crash site of the B-17 Flying Fortress piloted by legendary American aviator Immanuel J Klette - See Wartime Incidents.

[12] Wing (officially referred to as Cublington in the report), was considered to be ideally situated for access from all parts of the country and only fifty miles from London.

As a permanent celebration of the victory, Buckinghamshire County Council planted a spinney of over 400 trees and a monument on a 3-acre site that would have been at the centre of the airport that would have dwarfed Heathrow in size.