"Royal Air Force Coastal Command- No. 247 Group Operations in the Azores, 1943-1945." Air Vice-Marshal G R Bromet, Air Officer Commanding No. 247 Group, gives a 'green' on an Aldis lamp for the first aircraft - a Boeing Fortress Mark II - to take off, during the Anglo-Portuguese ceremony to open the new runway at Lagens. Standing next to him is the Station Commander of Lagens, Group Captain W E Oulton, and the Portuguese Military Governor of the Azores, Brigadier J Tamagnini Barbosa.