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...gratifying, too, that General Eisenhower would probably be flanked in North Africa by three crack Britons -General Sir Harold Alexander, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. (The shift in command also sent air-minded Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews to head all U.S. troops in the European theater -with his base in England, now one long runway for bomber attacks on Germany...
Eisenhower's elevation to a full general, giving him equal rank with Marshall and MacArthur, seemed to be only a matter of time. By the account of newspaper dopesters, a British General (Alexander), Admiral (Cunningham) and an Air Marshal (Tedder) will serve under him, as will French General Giraud. Only 23 months ago Ike Eisenhower had been a lieutenant colonel, five ranks and a million years below four stars...
...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...
...Portal, Chief of Air Staff; Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of the Commandos; Field Marshal Sir John Dill; Lieut. General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander in Chief of the Middle East; Major General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander of the Eighth Army (see p. 26); Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder...
Died. Rosalinde Maclardy, Lady Tedder, wife of Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, commander of the R.A.F. in the Middle East; in an air crash near Cairo. The Marshal's elder son, Arthur, of the R.A.F., was killed in aerial combat over France...