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1947
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345 FLIGHT APRIL 17TH, 1947 The Home of Fighter Command Permanent Exhibition Underground at Bent ley Priory VISITORS to H.Q., Fighter Command, atBentley Priory, Stanmore, who since1936 have numbered many thousands and have represented several nations, will de- plore the news that the ante-room—perhaps the noblest part of a beautiful home—w;b gutted when fire broke out 011 the night of March 10th. Although most of the pictures, furniture and trophies were saved, damage was suffered by the rooms above and by the roof of the East Wing, and when Flight visited the Priory shortly before Easter the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (Air Marshal Sir James M. Robb, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C) explained to us that he had abandoned his office, adjacent to the ante-room, and was working from his caravan. There was no evidence that the disruption caused by the fire had in any way affected the Flight " whotograph. Air Vice-Marshal S. F. Vincent, C.H., D.F.C.,A.F.C., Senior Air Staff OfficerX^tFjghter Com- mand, discusses the synthetically workingG.C.I, equipment with F/O. Smith. Fighter Command hospitality. This, of course, has become a tradition, like that with which the Priory has been imbued by Pitt, Canning, Liverpool, Sidmouth, the Duke of Wellington,*. Lord and Lady Hamilton, Mrs. Siddons, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Queen Adelaide and residents and guests of equal fame. The history of Fighter Command can be RirbbIaKhBEir C?1 traced, back "to the Air Defence of Great D*S O DV'C AFC' Britain, formed in JJN5 under the command of Air'Officer Command- Air Marshal Sir John Salmond. With the ex- ing-in-Chief, Fighter pansion of the R.A.F. in 1936, A.D.G.B. was Commar.d replaced by Fighter, Bomber, Coastal and 1 Flight " tthotograph. The Fighter Command Intruder Operations Room, plotted as it would be during activity over the Continent.
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