Word: tedder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo, 140 miles east of the Chianti bottle, General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander of the Middle East, pored over reports telling the story of the battle. He sat in close communion with a thin, jug-eared man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder. Upon these two depended the fate of Allied power in the Mediterranean. In their strategical structure, Egypt is the keystone...
...Sage. The man who scrutinized the R.A.F.'s performance with the deepest satisfaction was General Alexander's companion in Cairo, the quizzical Tedder, who in England is accounted one of the wise men of aviation...
...June 1941, when Arthur Tedder succeeded Sir Arthur Longmore as air boss for the Middle East, he became chief of an air domain that stretches now from Malta to the Persian Gulf and extends south to Madagascar...
...task was to build a bomber and fighter force in a theater that was considered secondary to Britain, yet covered far more territory and required a greater complexity of operations. Tedder's men had to support the light vessels of Admiral Harwood, attack Axis warships in the Mediterranean, hunt submarines in the Persian Gulf. Tedder's men had to bomb cities and airdromes. Tedder's men had to fight over desert, where airdromes were mobile and maintenance was a special and involved problem. More than that, Tedder's men had to learn to subordinate their spectacular...
Last month, tall, lean British Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, a vital, soft-spoken Scot, visited Malta and saw with his own shrewd eyes what was happening. He promised to send reinforcements and keep on sending them. On Saturday, when the alert sounded, swarms of Spitfires rose to meet the Luftwaffe attack, tore through the screen of Messerschmitts that was protecting Junkers bombers, sent one after another on flaming nose dives into...