Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, was a Royal Air Force officer. He was a pilot and squadron commander in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and he wen
Tedder on the Italian coast in December 1943
Tedder sitting at his desk at Air House, his official residence in Cairo, while serving as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Middle East Forces.
A convalescent Winston Churchill meets the outgoing and incoming Supreme Commanders in the Mediterranean, Dwight D. Eisenhower, to Churchill's right, and Henry Maitland Wilson, to his left. Behind them stand (from left to right), John Whiteley, Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, Brigadier G. S. Thompson, Admiral Sir John Cunningham, unknown, Sir Harold Alexander, Captain M. L. Power, Humfrey Gale, Leslie Hollis, and Eisenhower's chief of staff, Walter Bedell Smith.
Supreme Command, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), London, 1 February 1944. Tedder sits to Eisenhower's right as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander
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Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was la
Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
…Mediterranean Air Command and in that role was closely involved in the planning of the Allied invasion of Sicily and the Allied invasion of Italy. When Operation Overlord—the invasion of France—came to be planned, Tedder was appointed Deputy Supreme Commander at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force under General…
LSTs with barrage balloons deployed, unloading supplies on Omaha Beach for the breakout from Normandy
D-day assault routes into Normandy
Air plan for the Allied landing in Normandy
Remains of the concrete Mulberry harbour B (Gold) at Arromanches-les-Bains in Normandy, as seen out at sea and on the beach in 1990