John Slessor
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Cotesworth Slessor, was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force, serving as Chief of the Air Staff from 1950 to 1952. As a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps dur
Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, 1943
Bristol Fighter, a type flown by Slessor in the 1920s
Air Marshal Slessor as Air Member for Personnel, inspecting Czecho-Slovak personnel during the farewell parade of Czech squadrons at Manston, Kent, in 1945
Victor bomber pictured in 1959
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
John Slessor
…overseeing the demobilisation of the wartime RAF, until 1 October 1947. At the urging of the-then Chief of the Air Staff, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Tedder, Slessor succeeded General Sir William Slim as Commandant of the Imperial Defence College. Slessor had been dubious about accepting the position, and…
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