File:Winston Churchill with Sir Charles Portal on airfield.jpg

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English: Photograph of Winston Churchill with Sir Charles Portal at an airfield after returning to Great Britain after an official visit. Churchill is wearing his air commodore's uniform (shown on the left of the two central figures); Portal is on the right. The air officer shown in the far right of the photograph is unknown.
Date World War II (almost certainly after Portal had become Chief of the Air Staff - October 1940 - and before the close of the War - September 1945
Source Probert, H. (1991). High Commanders of the Royal Air Force. HMSO. ISBN 0-11-772635-4.
Author Unknown - presumably official British photographer
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(Reusing this file)		 PD-BritishGov. The photograph was scanned from Probert, H. (1991). High Commanders of the Royal Air Force. HMSO. ISBN 0-11-772635-4. The entire book, including its photographs, was issued under Crown Copyright. Although copyright for the book is dated at 1991, the Crown Copyright on the photographs starts from the date when they were taken. As this photograph is more than 50 years old it is now in the public domain.
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This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
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