Raymond Albert Wheeler
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Raymond Albert Wheeler was a lieutenant general in the United States Army Corps of Engineers and an engineer of international recognition. He fought in both World Wars, at the Marne in World War I, wh
Wheeler (4th from left on the dais) at the Japanese Surrender at Singapore, 1945
Grave at Arlington National Cemetery
South East Asia Command
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South East Asia Command was the body set up to be in overall charge of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre during the Second World War. The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia was t
Raymond Albert Wheeler
…to the Soviet Union, which involved the extensive rebuilding of the railroads and highways of Iraq and Iran. In autumn 1943, he was appointed to the South East Asia Command (SEAC) of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II on the staff of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, where…
Lieutenant-General Montagu Stopford, the second and final commander of SEAC, who commanded June–November 1946.
Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander of the South East Asia Command from October 1943 through the disbandment of SEAC in 1946. This photograph, taken in February 1944, is from his tour of the Arakan front, as part of the Burma Campaign
General Joseph Stilwell (right), First Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of the South East Asia Command, together with General Frank Merrill, in Burma during the Burma Campaign.