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...your issue (TIME, Nov. 2) you referred to Air Vice Marshal Coningham, R.A.F., as an Australian. The reason his nickname is "Mary" (a corruption of "Maori," the name of the New Zealand native, TIME, Nov. 9) is because he is a New Zealander, born and bred...
...principal conferees are four: shrewd, jug-eared Sir Arthur Tedder, dried-up, taciturn Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, wiry, ebullient Jimmy Doolittle and handsome Arthur ("Mary'') Coningham. They are a quartet of British and U.S. airmen who have one plan: to let loose a thunderbolt on the enemy...
...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...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 52, skinny, acidulous Royal Air Force commander in the Middle East, would direct all air operations. His deputies: Air Marshal Arthur Coningham, the New Zealander who was his air operations chief in the desert, Major General Carl Spaatz, Chief of U.S. Air Forces in Northwest Africa...
...There's a Man." At the R.A.F. advance headquarters, which had previously been Luftwaffe headquarters, U.S. Army Air Forces General "Lighter-than-Air" Strickland took us over to the tiny blue-doored trailer in which Air Vice Marshal Coningham was directing all R.A.F. operations in the Western Desert. Although Rommel's retreat was orderly, neither Coningham nor General Montgomery had anticipated such a quick Axis collapse in Egypt. At the very least they expected the Germans to make a stand on the frontier. Coningham believed that the Axis would probably be able to make a stand...