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Hixon was a wartime-built station which opened in 1942. The airfield was one side of the railway line to Stafford and the buildings and messes the other side. The buildings were built round the farmyard where land had been taken over for the airfield but the farmer still cultivated a small area remaining. The ploughing was done by a white horse and the sheep herded by a white dog. There was a certain tension between the farmer and the airmen as his eggs seemed to be disappearing and also now and again the odd chicken vanished. Eventually the farmer complained to the Station Commander and the airmen were all confined to camp for a period. The next day the farmer's white horse appeared with red, white and blue RAF roundels on each side and one round its tail. The white dog experienced the same treatment. The matter was then closed but the roundels remained for a long time

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