Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Senor Montero de Bustamante, Uruguayan Charge d'Affaires, speaking at the ceremony at Hornchurch, Essex to name a Spitfire ('Uruguay XVI') subscribed to by the people of Uruguay. Air Vice Marshal H W L Saunders, Air Officer Commanding No 11 Group of Fighter Command, is on the extreme left, with the Rt Hon H H Balfour MP, Under Secretary of State for Air (second from left) and Air Vice Marshal R M Hill, Air Officer Commanding No 12 Group (centre foreground).

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