Word: tedder
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Died. Air Marshal Lord Tedder, 76, Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander from 1943 to 1945, a brilliant R.A.F. tactician who as Middle East air commander in 1941 devised the concept of "carpet bombing," using hundreds of planes literally to blow a path for ground troops through Nazi minefields and fortifications, later played a major role in planning and carrying out the immensely complex invasion of Europe, with primary responsibility for making certain that land and sea forces had the fullest possible air cover; of Parkinson's disease; in Banstead, England...