Word: coningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere behind the German lines, Erwin Rommel listened with grim interest to the uproar of British guns and high-domed Albert Kesselring, who designed the bombing of Coventry, brooded over his less than adequate African Luftwaffe. Somewhere behind the Allied lines, tall, affable "Mars" Coningham, R.A.F. chief in the field, guided the performance of his planes. Near by, in a desert caravan, the tough, ubiquitous Bernard Montgomery kept his finger on every unit of the strongest Eighth Army any British general has yet commanded in the long desert campaign...
...Middle East army commander in chief all aid, "irrespective of other targets," when a battle was in progress. The army commander in chief, said Boss Churchill, would specify targets and tasks. A year later he announced hopefully that cooperation had ben realized-"is now renewed"-between Tedder and Alexander, Coningham and Montgomery. Large credit was due to Arthur Tedder...
...lets his deputy, quiet, able Roy Maxwell Drummond, handle most of the administrative problems. He likes to pop into the desert headquarters of the debonair Antipodean, Arthur Coningham (whose nickname "Mary" is corrupted from "Maoris," the name of the fierce New Zealand aborigines). He frequently pops into squadron posts and tells maintenance men to ask him questions. They take the Chief at his word: "When are we getting rid of this bloody antiquated lathe?" Air force men of one unit, not recognizing the coatless man who stopped by one morning, started kidding him about the regulation black...
R.A.F. commander, Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, nodded in assent. So did Acting Air Marshal Roy Maxwell Drummond, deputy commander in chief of the R.A.F. in the Middle East...
...Luftwaffe was ground-minded; the R.A.F. was rigidly air-minded. Rommel had absolute command of all German and Italian air units; Britain's Generals Ritchie and Auchinleck had none, except through their warming, thoroughly British and thoroughly inadequate personal contact with Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham...