Word: coningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern was developed, to a large extent, by the British Air Command in the Middle East-notably Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham. Its essence was the division of air forces into two parts, tactical and strategic. The tactical part, consisting of fighters, fighter-bombers, light and medium bombers, became in effect a weapon of the advancing army; it was used specifically and with terrifying concentration against the enemy army and its retreating and rear elements. The strategic part, consisting of heavy bombers, was used against the enemy's supply lines and extreme...
...fighter planes and attack bombers in coordination with ground activities. Spaatz's deputy to run the long-range bombing was Jimmy Doolittle, who had been none too happy with the mass of administrative detail which his original command had involved. His deputy to command the ground support: Arthur Coningham, the tall, genial expert who had run Tedder's Egyptian show...
...that they are fighting an unconnected war. Their main objective is the same as the ground troops'. Tedder and Spaatz confer often with Eisenhower and General Sir Harold Alexander, General Ike's chief of ground operations. They compose the tune. Spaatz arranges and conducts it. Doolittle and Coningham bang...
After Rommel's attack on the Alamein line in August had been turned back, Allied planes began a campaign of strategic bombing. They blasted Rommel's transport columns, bases, shipping. Then, in a second phase, Coningham stepped up his operations until he was conducting an all-out air offensive. He knocked out the Luftwaffe. The onslaught was independent of and preceded by two weeks General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's ground attack. But when Montgomery's Eighth hit, air and ground were immediately coordinated in the third phase. Coningham's bombers pounded rear lines while...
Last week the Tunisian air campaign was in Phase No. 1-the strategic bombing of Axis bases and land & water supply routes. Phase No. 2 will come when the ground forces are ready, or almost ready, to start their drive. Then "Mary" Coningham's short-range planes will try to liquidate the Luftwaffe. The whole execution is in the hands of Tooey Spaatz. For the Allies to win on the ground, he must first win the air. In Phase No. 3 will come the payoff...