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Brigadier General Robert C Candee shakes hands with Air Vice Marshal JH D'Albiac on the transfer of an RAF base into US Army Air Force hands. Image stamped on reverse: 'Sport and General.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 22 Jun 1943.' [stamp] and '271016.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'US AIR FORCE TAKES OVER RAF STATION. An RAF fighter command station was formally turned over to the US Army Air Forces today, somewhere in England. 26456 Brig Gen Robert C Candee, Commanding General 8th Air Force Air Support Command, and Air Vice Marshall JH D'Albiac CB, DSO, representing RAF Fighter Command.'

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IWM, Roger Freeman Collection