"Royal Air Force Coastal Command- No. 247 Group Operations in the Azores, 1943-1945." Consolidated Catalina Mark II, FP530, of No. 45 Group, Transport Command, based at Bermuda, prepares to taxy while visiting Lagens. Parked behind it are Vickers Wellington GR Mark XIVs of No. 179 Squadron RAF which maintained a Detachment at Lagens between November 1943 and April 1944.