2-950-967 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Naming an American Bomber', 6 July 1944, (1947). King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with daughter Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) at a bomber station of the USAAF. The Princess christened a new Flying Fortress, "Rose of York", and was presented with a bouquet of white roses. Here, she and her parents are seen with Lt.-General Doolittle, commander of the 8th Air Force. From "Princess Elizabeth: The Illustrated Story of Twenty-one Years in the Life of the Heir Presumptive", by Dermot Morrah. [Odhams Press Limited, London, 1947]