Between 15th-17th January 1942, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, returning from his meeting with President Roosevelt, made his first air crossing of the Atlantic, from Norfolk, Virginia via Bermuda, to Plymouth in a Boeing 314A flying boat owned by the British Overseas Airways Corporation and piloted by Captain Kelly Rodgers.

We are grateful to A.C. Harold, Esq., Keeper of Visual Arts, Royal Air Force Museum, for the above information.