• Leningrad An Allied convoy, escorted by sea and air, plowed through the seas toward French North African possessions near Casablanca, French Morocco, in November of 1942, part of … With the arrival of additional reinforcements, Arnim proceeded to expand the perimeters around Tunis and Bizerte into a … Holder of the Victoria Cross (World War I). • Lapland Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was named the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the China war zone (CBI) on 1942. • Blitzkrieg MacArthur commanded the defense of the Philippines until he was ordered by FDR to relocate to Australia in March, 1942. Seated on his right is Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder. On 18 April 1942 General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area GHQ SWPA was established at 401 - 403 Collins Street, Melbourne. • Operation Paperclip • Gothic Line Commander of Allied land forces in the South West Pacific, 1942–45. • Syrmian Front North Africa campaigns - North Africa campaigns - The Allied landings in North Africa: When the amphibious landings took place on November 8, 1942, the Americans had achieved surprise too fully, throwing their friends and helpers into confusion. Eisenhower then a full general, returned to the United Kingdom on 14 January 1944 to assume command 2 days later of the Allied forces assembling for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, scheduled for the spring of 1944. The Vichy French had around 125,000 soldiers in the territories as well as coastal artillery, 210 operational but out-of-date tanks and about 500 aircraft, half of which were Dewoitine D.520 fighters — … • Comparative military ranks The Germans had penetrated deep into Russia, the British Eighth Army in North Africa had been forced back into Egypt, and, in Western Europe, the Allied forces had been pushed across the English Channel to Britain. In early November 1942 the United States had been at war against the Axis for almost a year, but had yet to come to grips with German or Italian ground forces. • Indonesian National Revolution, Free French Forces (and later Fighting France and Provisional government of the French Republic), Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, Polish Government in Exile and Secret State, A Country Study: Saudi Arabia. In March 1942 aircraft from the US aircraft carriers ... General Blamey was, however, commander of the Allied land forces and, subject to MacArthur's direction, was therefore responsible for land operations. • Neptune After the war AFHQ became a small interallied staff responsible for combined command liquidation activities and commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir William Duthie Morgan as Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean. Low-level aerial photograph of the devastated city centre of Stuttgart from the east, ca. MacArthur was commander over all American Forces in the Far East when Japan's December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii plunged the United States into World War II. Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in the Middle East 1939–1941. After considerable deliberation the Allies settled on landing three corps-sized task forces, one centered on Casablanca, one centered on Oran, and one centered on Algiers. • Market Garden Eisenhower remained in command of AFHQ until 16 January 1944, overseeing the Allied invasion of Sicily (with the codename of Operation Husky), which began on 10 July 1943 and the Allied invasion of the Italian mainland (codenamed Operation Baytown and Operation Avalanche), on 3 September 1943. DISASTER AT SAVO ISLAND, 1942. Allied forces. Commander of ABDACOM 1942. The Battle of Savo Island occurred early in the morning on 9 August 1942 when the the Japanese 8 th Fleet surprised the Allied Task Force shortly after the landing at Guadalcanal. https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Allied_leaders_of_World_War_II • Hong Kong • Korsun–Cherkassy • Manila • Soviet occupations • Strategic bombing, • Expulsion of Germans Giraud was the Commander of the French Forces in North Africa since he received this civil and military charge on 26 December 1942 as (Commandement civil et militaire d'Alger) replacing murdered Vichy French admiral François Darlan. 1 Mar 1943 AM Sir Arthur Coningham. The elite forces destroyed or damaged 23 Italian planes being used to drop bombs on Allied troops Incredibly, whilst ten members of the force … Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ) was the headquarters that controlled all Allied operational forces in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II from August 1942 until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. • Philippines • Pearl Harbor The Battle of Savo Island. • Iraq • Italy (Spring 1945) • • Baltic States U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commander in SHAEF throughout its existence. • Operation Keelhaul Wilson's title became Supreme Commander, Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Records of subordinate commands, 1942-47, including Allied Armies in Italy; Headquarters Command Allied Forces; and Atlantic, Eastern, Mediterranean, and Peninsular Base Sections. On the morning of 10 November in Algiers Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, deputy to Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander in Chief, Allied Force, met Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, commander in chief of the collaborationist Vichy government's military forces. The position itself shares a common lineage with Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Atlantic, but they are different titles. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied forces in Mediterranean Theater of Operations, planned a three-pronged attack on Casablanca (Western), Oran (Center) and Algiers (Eastern), then a rapid move on Tunis to catch Axis forces in North Africa from the west in conjunction with Allied advance from east.