Word: coningham
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Cunningham, Cunningham, Coningham & Co. If the plan eventually succeeded, it would be thanks to three field commanders whose names were, symbolically enough in a campaign demanding the utmost in teamwork, all pronounced the same. Every ranker knew a little about the mononymic three...
...Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham (no relative) is a dark, strong-faced, deep-voiced, wisecracking, non-smoking six-footer from New Zealand. He has a reputation for talent in cooperation-not a notable talent of previous R.A.F. commanders in the Middle East. Air Vice Marshal Coningham speaks French, German and Italian. He is widely traveled and knows Italy well; he refers to his bombings of Naples as his "slum-clearance project." Of the Germans, whose country he used to visit annually, he says: "They know war from A to about Y. They don't know...