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Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

Royal Air Force air marshal (1893-1971)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford KG GCB OM DSO & Bar MC (21 May 1893 - 22 April 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer and an advocate of strategic bombing. He was the British Chief of the Air Staff during most of the Second World War.

  • Photograph taken at the Air Ministry in London
    Photograph taken at the Air Ministry in London
  • Lord Portal's statue next to the Ministry of Defence, London
    Lord Portal's statue next to the Ministry of Defence, London
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