Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892-1944) was Air Officer Commanding (AOC) No. (1885-1945) was placed in command of the US 3rd Army on 1st August 1944, after the Normandy Invasion had begun. Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) was named Commanding General of the substantial US 1st Army, which alongside the British 2nd Army made up Monty's 21st Army Group.
Sir Bertram Home Ramsay (1883-1945) was appointed Naval Commander in Chief of the Allied Naval Expeditionary Force. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976) was named as Commander of the 21st Army Group, to which all ground forces belonged. the Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief of Expeditionary forces. Sir Arthur William Tedder (1890-1967) was appointed Deputy Supreme Commander, and craving more responsibility, later wrested control of the Air planning from Leigh-Mallory. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force G-2 and G-3 Divisions, and the following. The Atlantic Bridge was formed as war material and troops were poured into the Port of Liverpool where the Western Approaches Command was based.ĭwight D "Ike" Eisenhower ( 1890-1969) was appointed Supreme Allied Commander of the Expeditionary Force in February 1944. At the Washington Conference in January 1942 the two World Leaders established a "Germany First" policy and jointly agreed to form the Combined Chiefs of Staff to co-ordinate Allied War Planning. In December 1941 Prime Minister Churchill, boarded the battleship HMS Duke of York to meet with President Roosevelt. Soon after America entered the War, military planning began for the Second Front. From this point onwards British and American strategists began working together in earnest to formulate a path towards the invasion of Europe. In August 1941 British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, met with President Roosevelt on board the King George V Class Battleship, HMS Prince of Wales, in Placentia Bay Newfoundland this Atlantic Charter Conference was the first meeting between the two English-speaking leaders in what was emerging as the "Grand Alliance" against the AXIS powers. The Trans-Atlantic Alliance was formed even before the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor.
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