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Never had military coordination between the Russians and the Western Allies been so close. In January a Soviet mission had come to SHAEF in Paris, and U.S. airmen had gone to Moscow. Now London disclosed that Sir Arthur Tedder-Eisenhower's brilliant deputy commander and one of the world's great air strategists -had also gone to Moscow, to organize "close liaison between the advancing Russian armies and British and American bomber forces in the west." Said Eisenhower: "The Russians have furnished me with all the information I needed to know, and have done so cheerfully and willingly...
...Allied loss of about 300). Such attrition sapped the Luftwaffe's hoarded strength at once: it flew an estimated 800 sorties on its first day, but by its third day could manage only 400 sorties. With some 12,000 planes at his disposal, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder was mounting an average of 7,000 daily sorties...
Ceremonious Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory, onetime boss of Britain's glamorous Fighter Command, plugged on nevertheless at his job in Eisenhower's headquarters. This week the situation was cleared up. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy to Eisenhower and a veteran associate and boss of U.S. airmen, took over the job of running the Expeditionary Air Force. To a new job in a minor league-the Southeast Asia theater-went Sir Trafford, to become Allied air commander there...
Schooling in the Desert. Coningham learned a good deal from the desert Luftwaffe. He learned more from his own experiments. He learned something about the relation of tactics to overall strategy from the brilliant strategic mind of prim, quiet Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder (now Eisenhower's Deputy Commander in Chief), top Allied air commander in the Mediterranean theater when the Germans were finally cleared out of Africa...
...flicker over Europe until Nazi Germany is down. Similar conferences had been held twice a clay for three days. On the preceding Saturday the operation had even been ordered, then canceled again almost immediately, when the weather took a sudden turn for the worse. That, even the calm Tedder admitted, had been "pretty nerve-racking." But this time there would be no turning back. Ike's Plan. The plan that General Eisenhower set in motion had its genesis in the dark days after the rescue of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. Then it was little more than...