Word: tedder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named in full. The known appointments heart-warmed every Briton: cocky, confident General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery will leave his Eighth Army to serve as chief of "the British group of armies" on the second front; the R.A.F.'s taut, smart Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder will be Eisenhower's top air deputy (as he was in the Mediterranean...
Married. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53, G.C.B., soft-spoken master of the Mediterranean air; and Mrs. Marie de Seton Black, 36, promoter of R. A. Freshing Malcolm Clubs in Algiers, Tunis; in Algiers. An air crash near Cairo killed his first wife last January...
Engaged. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53, the invasion's softspoken, bird-faced bombing strategist; and Mrs. Marie Black, organizer of R.A.F.-men's Malcolm Clubs in Algiers and Tunisia; in Algiers. His first wife died in an air crash near Cairo last January...
...gradually come to know. Beside him, part of a sensitive, interlocking mechanism of responsibility, were such top commanders in the theater as British General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, chief planner and strategist; Admiral Sir Andrew Brown Cunningham, boss of the Mediterranean fleet; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, strategist of the air. They made the specific plans, which had to be shared with President Roosevelt, with Prime Minister Churchill, with General Marshall and the Anglo-U.S. staffs in Washington. But the ultimate responsibility was Eisenhower's. And to accomplish his job Eisenhower must lean heavily...
That air power was being wielded with fluid brilliance by a pair of past masters: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, as Commander in Chief of Allied Mediterranean Air Command, and Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, as Commander of the Northwest African Air Force. Their main striking weapons were Major General James H. Doolittle's Strategic Air Force (heavy bombers over main objectives in the enemy rear) and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Tactical Air Force (close support of the embattled ground forces). Together they formed an almost perfect team, welded and tempered in the African victory...