Word: tedder
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Somewhere in Algeria, Ike Eisenhower, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and Major General James Doolittle conferred with Sir Arthur William Tedder, R.A.F. chief in the Middle East,* and Major General Lewis Brereton, chief of U.S. Middle East air forces. Tedder and Brereton had flown in from Egypt. The moment Tunis was cleared, the trap would probably be sprung on Rommel...
...British had learned from disasters in the past. In Cairo the astute Alexander and his R.A.F. chief Tedder (TIME, Nov. 9) had planned with exquisite care. Montgomery gave his orders, the day the battle began, that the enemy must be destroyed. This was to be no mere chase across the desert, as in the past, when the British had dissipated their tank strength. This time they kept their armor intact and used it for annihilation...
...right. This week, as Montgomery surged against Rommel's line and the supporting air offensive rose to a crescendo, Arthur was very much all right. In the overall strategy which he helped plan and which now he saw in action, planes and pilots were functioning magnificently. Beneath Tedder's wings was a design for victory...
When his oldest son, Arthur, was killed in flying combat over England, Tedder took his sketchbook, wandered away for a few days, returned and wordlessly dug himself into his work. The only sign of his deep grief, in days to come, was a sharpening of his cutting humor. He has two other children, a daughter in the W.A.A.F. in England, a younger son still in school...
...minds of Alexander, Tedder, Montgomery and Coningham was the determination that this time Rommel must be smashed. Within the speculations of Tedder was a day when the British would occupy airdromes along the whole coast of North Africa, when the R.A.F. would take up its devastating role in the next phase of the Mediterranean war: an attack on southern Europe...